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Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. — Stephen King
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to… — Margaret Atwood
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was… — Neil Gaiman
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. — Gail Carson Levine
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your… — Nick Hornby
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine,… — Charles Bukowski
Write as if your parents are dead. — Anne Lamott
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that… — Joseph Heller
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil JosÃ©
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with… — Stephen Chbosky
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! — Unknown Author
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho

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