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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash. — Neal A. Maxwell
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad… — Robert A. Heinlein
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles â€“ I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that â€“… — Jack Kerouac
Let love write on you for awhile. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid… — Joss Whedon
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdaleâ€™s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that… — Kurt Vonnegut
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. — Don DeLillo
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. Itâ€™s… — Stephen King
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you donâ€™t see the same… — Kris Radish
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… — Annie Dillard
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will… — Annie Dillard
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what… — Annie Dillard
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end,… — Don DeLillo
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but… — Walter Benjamin
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such… — Joseph Campbell

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