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You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet,… — Bob Dylan
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. — Vladimir Lenin
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write… — Ernest Hemingway
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I… — David Grossman
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? — Milan Kundera
And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads… — Tim O'Brien
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [â€¦] I wish to speak to and for… — Kenneth Rexroth
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small… — Zelda Fitzgerald
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to… — Anton Chekhov
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. — W. Somerset Maugham
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its… — Eudora Welty
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. — Sherman Alexie
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. — Elwyn Brooks White
...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but… — Ralph Keyes
Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember. — Ralph Keyes
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and… — William Faulkner
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it — Natalie Goldberg

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