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Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you… — Joseph Campbell
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… — Flannery O'Connor
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in… — Robert Frost
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose… — Charlotte Bronte
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. — Matsuo Basho
No writing is a waste of time â€“ no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,… — Brenda Ueland
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all… — Brenda Ueland
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them… — Anne Lamott
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
I said it before and Iâ€™ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: thereâ€™s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry
It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very… — Benjamin Hoff
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? — James M. Barrie
I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have… — David Levithan
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who… — James Jones
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they… — Jeanette Winterson
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… — Lorrie Moore
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i… — E E Cummings

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