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Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you… — Gerard Way
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them… — William Shakespeare
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. — Shirley Jackson
It is a sin to write this. — Ayn Rand
Why write stories? To join the conversation. — Dorothy Allison
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where… — Anne Lamott
When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around… — Anne Lamott
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… — Anne Lamott
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot… — William T. Vollmann
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature. — Candace Bushnell
So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take… — Elizabeth Chandler
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never… — David Levithan
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the… — Haruki Murakami
Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writingâ€”and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing.… — Rick Bass
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. — Frank Herbert
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long… — Robin Hobb
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said… — Stephen King
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity. — Franz Kafka

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