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We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five… — Chris Bohjalian
The easiest thing to do on earth is not writeâ€¦But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. — William Goldman
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to… — P.G. Wodehouse
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Donâ€™t wait… — Natalie Goldberg
It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. — Jean Webster
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to… — Roald Dahl
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing… — Jim Butcher
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things… — Stephen Fry
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — Tom Stoppard
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you canâ€™t write unless you read. — William Trevor
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So… — Toni Morrison
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a… — Eric Foner
When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and… — Neil Gaiman
So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such… — Stephen Colbert
A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their… — Ilona Andrews

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