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Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into… — James N. Frey
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include… — David McCullough
I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me. — Christian Bauman
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest… — Tara Bray Smith
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese,… — Sherman Alexie
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make… — Isak Dinesen
I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and… — W S Merwin
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. — Dodie Smith
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of… — Peter Kropotkin
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to… — John Berryman
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you. — Oscar Wilde
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. — Ernest Hemingway

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