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If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and… — Madeleine L'Engle
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I donâ€™t know. Likewise, I donâ€™t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life… — Jennifer Donnelly
Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool,… — Kate Chopin
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or… — Kurt Vonnegut
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. — Unknown Author
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes… — Lucille Clifton
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. — Anne Lamott
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. — Julia Quinn
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too. — Sister Souljah
I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I… — Matthew Quick
Of course.â€ She fluffed her hair. â€œI donâ€™t want to brag, but Iâ€™m very high maintenance.â€ â€œUh, I think low maintenance is whatâ€™s desirable.â€ â€œLow… — Gena Showalter
I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desireâ€”well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of… — Catherynne M. Valente
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… — Hilary Mantel
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. — John Banville
If you own this story you get to write the ending. — BrenÃ© Brown
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a… — Ernest Hemingway
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and… — Ernest Hemingway
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never… — Janet Fitch

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