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You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. — Sandra Brown
This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never… — Veronica Roth
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, â€œWitch… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a… — Robert Stone
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. — O. Henry
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are… — Daniel Handler
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good… — David Mamet
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. — Philip Larkin
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you… — Nikos Kazantzakis
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And… — Louise Erdrich
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. — C J Cherryh
on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom.… — Stephen Chbosky
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love… — E. M. Forster
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. — Suzanne Collins
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me. — Dodie Smith
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. — A. Lee Martinez
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him… — Markus Zusak
What I don't write is as important as what I write. — Jamaica Kincaid
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector

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