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I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury… — Lew Wallace
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. — H.G. Wells
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. — Epictetus
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's… — Dorothy Parker
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. — Voltaire
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able… — Matthew Gregory Lewis
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by… — Natalie Goldberg
Well â€” when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures â€” all these little stars That shake out of my cloak… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… — Anne Lamott
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write. — Eric Weiner
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink. — Guy Debord
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in… — Orson Scott Card
Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they… — Shane Claiborne
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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