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I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask… — Sue Monk Kidd
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. — Maya Angelou
A book comes and says, 'Write me. — Madeleine L'Engle
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent… — Joyce Carol Oates
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see… — Flannery O'Connor
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. — John Updike
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what… — Franz Kafka
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks
Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a… — Elwyn Brooks White
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why… — Lloyd Jones
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have… — Anne Lamott
What I adore is supreme professionalism. Iâ€™m bored by writers who can write only when itâ€™s raining. — Noel Coward
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco

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