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After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a… — Frank O'Hara
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. — Annie Dillard
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make… — Italo Calvino
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if… — Francis Bacon
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write. — Philip Sidney
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,… — Philip Pullman
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write. — Stephen Chbosky
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about. — Leslie Poles Hartley
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And… — James K. Morrow
Write about what you don't know about what you know. — Eudora Welty
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. — Kurt Vonnegut
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to… — William Faulkner
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it… — Franz Kafka
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. — Richard Brautigan
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book â€“ and that he did not learn it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I always thought old age would be a writerâ€™s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. — Margaret Atwood
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if… — Richard Bach
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot… — M.F.K. Fisher

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