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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it… — Philip Roth
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. — C.S. Lewis
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itâ€™s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good… — Dean Koontz
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip… — Walter Mosley
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even… — Agatha Christie
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people.… — Franz Kafka
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write… — Henry Rollins
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. — Stephen King
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. — William Butler Yeats
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I canâ€™t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface… — Douglas Preston
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone who says, â€œHereâ€™s my address, write me a poem,â€ deserves something in reply. So Iâ€™ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we… — Victor Hugo
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something… — Ernest Hemingway
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. — Mark Twain
I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am. — Jane Austen
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.… — Flannery O'Connor

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