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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to… — Maya Angelou
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar… — Beryl Bainbridge
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… — Elizabeth Bowen
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a… — Andrea Brown
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… — Truman Capote
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. — Jeffrey Carver
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad,… — Robertson Davies
I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. — Stanley Elkin
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years,… — Harlan Ellison
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. — Gustave Flaubert
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. — Ernest Gaines
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that… — Alan Garner
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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