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People without hope not only donâ€™t write novels, but what is more to the point, they donâ€™t read them. They donâ€™t take long looks at… — Flannery O'Connor
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. — Carol Shields
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When youâ€™re done, you have to step back and look… — Stephen King
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published… — Anne Lamott
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and… — Anne Lamott
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd… — Anne Lamott
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much… — Jim Elliot
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. — Charles Bukowski
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you donâ€™t like something, it is empirically not good. I donâ€™t like Chinese food,… — Tina Fey
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this… — Haruki Murakami
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever
I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what… — Anne Bronte
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme. — Ann Aguirre
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading. — Ernest Hemingway
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what… — Neil Gaiman
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite… — Michael Cunningham
I wrote a book called â€˜Dancing The Dreamâ€™. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasnâ€™t full of gossip… — Michael Jackson
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would… — Eduardo Galeano
The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on… — Lauren DeStefano

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