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In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. — W. Somerset Maugham
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the… — Tim O'Brien
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many… — Joe Haldeman
Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um...… — Natsuki Takaya
Read like a butterfly, write like a bee. — Philip Pullman
The writerâ€™s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think thatâ€™s part… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer
I write with all my heart — Ursula K. Le Guin
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are… — Jean M. Auel
I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense,… — Charles Yu
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be… — Nora Roberts
I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts,… — Henry Miller
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. — James Broughton
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and… — Taylor Swift
But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This… — Lawrence Hill
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see… — Annie Ernaux
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding… — William Faulkner
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual… — Ray Bradbury
Silence has many advantagesâ€¦I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. — Barbara Kingsolver

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