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Write about the emotions you fear the most. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an… — William Faulkner
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the… — Nicole Krauss
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side… — Anne Lamott
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. — Shirley Hazzard
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itselfâ€”the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Peopleâ€™s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. — William Shakespeare
I write to discover what I think — Daniel J. Boorstin
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… — Ian Mcewan
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. — Madeleine L'Engle
Write about what you're afraid of. — Donald Barthelme
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… — Jean Cocteau
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage… — Bertolt Brecht
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes… — Ray Bradbury
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might… — Franklin P. Adams
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think… — Thomas Pynchon
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been… — Paul Auster
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. — Charles Caleb Colton

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