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According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't… — Haruki Murakami
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it. — Jerry Stahl
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and… — John Steinbeck
What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other peopleâ€™s hearts. You want to… — Keith Richards
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers,… — Jim Henson
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off… — Jandy Nelson
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. — Garth Nix
Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I… — Anne Frank
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve… — Philip Roth
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for… — Christopher Hitchens
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say. — Mark Z. Danielewski
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed… — Ernest Hemingway
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!"… — Tennessee Williams
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or… — Muriel Barbery
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. — Haruki Murakami
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. — Louis L'Amour
STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top.… — Neil Strauss
â€ŽIf you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lotâ€¦reading is the creative… — Stephen King
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. Iâ€™m shutting down. I need to go the other… — Augusten Burroughs
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. — China Mieville

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