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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of… — Vita Sackville-West
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world… — Chuck Palahniuk
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. — Karen Joy Fowler
I write to find out what I think. — Stephen King
What you write chooses you. — Terry Brooks
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events… — Bertrand Russell
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll… — Maya Angelou
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write… — Andre Gide
If only youâ€™d remember before ever you sit down to write that youâ€™ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply… — J D Salinger
Both Rowling and Meyer, theyâ€™re speaking directly to young people. â€¦ The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer… — Stephen King
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit… — Janette Rallison
Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. — Brian Keene
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. — Elie Wiesel
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as… — Charles Bukowski
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. — David Sedaris
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as… — Miguel de Cervantes
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy. — Jack Kerouac
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:… — Anais Nin

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