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It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about. — bell hooks
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored… — Italo Calvino
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or,… — Italo Calvino
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when… — Italo Calvino
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to… — Italo Calvino
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you… — Sholom Aleichem
I mostly write on my own, walking, outside. — Bjork
At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so… — Shakira
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. — Tom Clancy
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with… — Paul Theroux
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination,… — Paul Theroux
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self. — Ben Okri
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in… — Ben Okri
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind… — Dan Millman
My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach… — Alanis Morissette
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in… — Alanis Morissette
I try to write the kind of books I like to read. — Isabel Allende
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende
Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for… — Isabel Allende

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