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• Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff
• One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• One writes to teach, to move or to delight. — Unknown Author
• As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks
• No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin
• One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin
• One writes to find words' meanings. — Joy Williams
• One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, — James A. Baldwin
• What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -… — Paul Muldoon
• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men?… — Jackie Collins
• When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality… — Deborah Eisenberg
• One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns

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