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I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by… — Siri Hustvedt
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To… — Paul Auster
I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've… — Ayi Kwei Armah
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over,… — Peter Carey
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. — Susan Sontag
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,… — Virginia Woolf
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. — Nikki Giovanni
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless… — Richard Matheson
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. — Anne Frank
Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".… — Charles Bukowski
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good — Thornton Wilder
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can… — David O. McKay
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know. — Raymond Chandler
I am telling you what I knowâ€”words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E L Doctorow
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or… — Michael Pollan

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