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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
I write as a witness to what I have seen. — Terry Tempest Williams
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be… — Terry Tempest Williams
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer. — Toni Morrison
My way of finding a place in this world is to write one. — Barbara Kingsolver
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan… — Barbara Kingsolver
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw. — Thomas Aquinas
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose… — Alan Paton
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. — Jean Anouilh
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. — Wole Soyinka
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. — Amit Ray
These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to… — Randy Glasbergen
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. — Edith Hamilton
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing… — Lady Gaga
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I… — Haruki Murakami
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. — Dorothy Parker
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds… — Patti Scialfa

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