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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… — Paul Auster
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to… — Julian Assange
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof… — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.… — Margaret Atwood
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. — Jane Austen
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however… — Paul Auster
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much… — Paul Auster
I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. — Emilie Autumn
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon

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