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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why… — Andrea Barrett
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it. — Jorie Graham
As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Letâ€™s delight in the fact that over the years… — Amina Mama
I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because Iâ€™ve been so absorbed in the last few series that Iâ€™d sort… — Frank Cottrell Boyce
I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative.… — Clint Bowyer
People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing… — Nnedi Okorafor
If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go. — Megan McDonald
Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you. — Colin Linden
One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and clichÃ©-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep,… — Edward Dorn
Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use. — Abbi Glines
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write… — Stephen Coonts
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. — Paul Lauterbur
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons:… — Patricia MacLachlan
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it… — Ina Coolbrith
Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it. — Dan Mangan
Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to… — Frances Hardinge
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the… — Lynn Flewelling
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer

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