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I have spent a good many years sinceâ€•too many, I thinkâ€•being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that… — Stephen King
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts… — Charles Simic
I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain.… — Bell Hooks
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely lifeâ€¦ Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live. — Jonah Lehrer
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — J D Salinger
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not… — Darren Shan
In some ways, I donâ€™t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I… — Marcel Proust
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. — John Updike
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there… — Natalie Goldberg
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk;… — Steven Johnson
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do… — Zadie Smith
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang… — George Eliot
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood… — Mark Twain
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only… — Christopher Moore
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom… — Anne Lamott

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