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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over… — Erica Jong
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg
And I could write it better than you ever felt it. — Pete Wentz
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you canâ€™t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth… — Groucho Marx
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a… — Flannery O'Connor
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. — Eudora Welty
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in… — Thomas Wolfe
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. — Pablo Neruda
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into… — Kurt Vonnegut
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… — Lorrie Moore
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of… — Anton Chekhov
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual — Virginia Woolf
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and… — Franz Kafka
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching… — Paul Rudnick
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you… — Thomas Merton
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. — Dodie Smith

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