They Write Quotes

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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… — Anne Lamott
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and… — Edna Ferber
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one… — Anne Lamott
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which… — W. Somerset Maugham
I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look… — Massimo Vignelli
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to… — Margaret Atwood
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. Thatâ€™s why people… — Jon Krakauer
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as… — Joyce Carol Oates
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you… — Gerard Way
The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.... — Jack Prelutsky
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do… — Zadie Smith
It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod even though you'd… — Neal Shusterman
They write songs about California girls for a reason. — Sarah Mlynowski
I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books.… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. — Jon Ronson
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they… — Anthony Kiedis
Do you know how some people can do anything?â€ â€œWhat do you mean?â€ â€œI mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you… — Maggie Stiefvater
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I… — Jesse Eisenberg
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans… — Athol Fugard

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