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Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out… — Cornelia Funke
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a… — Raymond Carver
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. — Martin Luther
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. — Adrienne Rich
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? — Gilles Deleuze
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation â€”… — Peter De Vries
My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess… — Alton Brown
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write. — Salman Rushdie
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. — P.G. Wodehouse
I donâ€™t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one… — Lorrie Moore
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares
Donâ€™t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesnâ€™t. Write about it.… — Atul Gawande
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:… — Joe Dunthorne
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,… — Eudora Welty
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it;… — Charles Dickens
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out — Michael Ondaatje
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but… — Madeleine L'Engle

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