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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal… — Anais Nin
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about… — Ernest Hemingway
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. — Jimmy Buffett
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. — William H. Gass
I write out of revenge. — William Goldman
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with… — Alexander Pope
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which… — W. Somerset Maugham
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer… — Garth Nix
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you… — Ernest Hemingway
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have… — Betty Smith
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a… — Stephen King
It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt… — Douglas Coupland
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can… — Nick Hornby
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. — Khalil Gibran
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. — Richard Price
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. — Toni Cade Bambara
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I… — Katherine Anne Porter

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