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When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we… — Helene Cixous
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? — Elie Wiesel
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen… — Bret Easton Ellis
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song. — Paul McCartney
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousinâ€Ÿs Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down — Julia Quinn
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and… — Simone de Beauvoir
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. Thatâ€™s because my books are not to be read in… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. — Barbara Kingsolver
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to… — John Keats
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter wonâ€™t… — Rick Riordan
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in… — Annie Dillard
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. — Julia Cameron
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. — Becca Fitzpatrick
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry.… — Fran Lebowitz
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot.… — John Green
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater
The task of all Christian scholarshipâ€”not just biblical studiesâ€”is to study reality as a manifestation of Godâ€™s glory, to speak and write about it with… — John Piper
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and… — Neil Gaiman
We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write… — Ai Yazawa

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