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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to… — Natalie Goldberg
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Sydney Lea
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. — Wallace Stegner
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny. — James Dickey
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would… — Kevin Canty
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write. — Kurt Vonnegut
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I… — Dan Aykroyd
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… — Harry Crews
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could.… — Waldo Salt
I have to live the content, then come back and write about it. — Heather Armstrong
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me. — Ree Drummond
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When… — Lady Gaga
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no… — Vera Brittain
I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign… — Robert Pattinson

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