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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the… — Ernest Hemingway
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. — Dodie Smith
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I… — Natalie Goldberg
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. — Ernest Hemingway
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way… — John Irving
I want to do something splendidâ€¦ Something heroic or wonderful that wonâ€™t be forgotten after Iâ€™m deadâ€¦ I think I shall write books. — Louisa May Alcott
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a… — Anne Rice
I really would like to stop working foreverâ€“never work again, never do anything like the kind of work Iâ€™m doing nowâ€“and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write… — Flannery O'Connor
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your… — Ray Bradbury
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. — Anne Fadiman
I write emotional algebra. — Anais Nin
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own… — Orhan Pamuk
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get… — Thomas Merton
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX… — Chuck Palahniuk
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it… — Emily Dickinson

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