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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply… — Kurt Vonnegut
Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured. — Emily Dickinson
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers… — Renata Adler
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. — Ray Bradbury
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I write storys to entertain not to be the best — Daniel Handler
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her. — Eva Ibbotson
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing.… — Frederic Chopin
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call… — Wallace Stegner
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie… — Sue Monk Kidd
And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us and the humans… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness? — Graham Greene
Write like it matters, and it will. — Libba Bray
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. — Richard Peck
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material… — Wendelin Van Draanen
I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do. — Sharon Creech
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly… — Paul Di Filippo
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why canâ€™t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late eveningâ€”where the light is green from… — Katherine Mansfield

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