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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… — George Orwell
I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information… — David Foster Wallace
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED.… — Amy Tan
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's… — Stephen Leacock
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and… — W. Somerset Maugham
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf… — William Saroyan
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have… — Amy Tan
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to… — Alanis Morissette
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the… — Anne Enright
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your… — Anne Enright
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. — Annie Dillard
I type in one place, but I write all over the house. — Toni Morrison
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour

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