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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell
Iâ€™m not sure Iâ€™ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I shouldâ€™ve said. — Megan McCafferty
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how… — Charles Bukowski
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters… — Ann Brashares
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. Thatâ€™s why people… — Jon Krakauer
I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the… — Pat Murphy
Cal: â€œCould you write a little bigger? Iâ€™m not sure China saw that.â€ Every Boy's Got One — Meg Cabot
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. — Sue Monk Kidd
Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for… — Arthur Japin
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true,… — P.D. James
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down… — Jean Webster
Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each… — Maya Angelou
Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt.… — Karen White
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before… — William Arthur Ward
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a… — Henry David Thoreau
You can write a book on how to ruin someoneâ€™s perfect day. — Taylor Swift

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