I Write Quotes

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Well â€” when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures â€” all these little stars That shake out of my cloak… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I… — David Grossman
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [â€¦] I wish to speak to and for… — Kenneth Rexroth
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call… — Robin McKinley
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald
I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go… — Toni Morrison
I write to find out what I think. — Stephen King
If only youâ€™d remember before ever you sit down to write that youâ€™ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply… — J D Salinger
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me,… — Sue Grafton
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that wonâ€™t. — Dorianne Laux
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished. — James Patterson
I write to discover what I know. — Flannery O'Connor
When I want to read a novel, I write one. — Benjamin Disraeli
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks â€˜the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,â€™....… — Maya Angelou
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are… — Stephen Fry
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what… — Franz Kafka
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

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