I Write Quotes

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I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring… — Edward Gorey
I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself… — Anne Frank
I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me. — Christian Bauman
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the… — Ernest Hemingway
I write emotional algebra. — Anais Nin
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX… — Chuck Palahniuk
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it… — Emily Dickinson
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation —… — Peter De Vries
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it;… — Charles Dickens
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out — Michael Ondaatje
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. — H.G. Wells
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — 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. […] 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 you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply… — J D Salinger

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