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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one… — Ernest Hemingway
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The… — Ernest Hemingway
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write. — Ernest Hemingway
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always… — Ernest Hemingway
Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did… — Kathryn Hughes
Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper. — Harry Kemelman
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. — Barbara Kingsolver
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word… — W. P. Kinsella
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested… — C.S. Lewis
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. — Toni Morrison
Learn to write by writing — Ann Patchett
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about. — Richard Peck

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