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I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to… — Charles Bukowski
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody… — Charles Bukowski
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great… — Tom Robbins
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. — Dean Koontz
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The… — Anne Lamott
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or… — Jacques Barzun
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneâ€™s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
In order to write about life first you must live it. — Ernest Hemingway
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that youâ€™d like to remember, write it down in your little book;… — Keith Donohue
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take… — Flannery O'Connor
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in… — Roland Smith
If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare… — Pablo Neruda
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write Englishâ€•it is the modern way and… — Mark Twain
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas… — Robert Wilson Lynd

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