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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they… — Erica Jong
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. — Edward Abbey
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective. — Edward Abbey
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the… — Edward Abbey
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there… — Martin Amis
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who… — Martin Amis
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, — Martin Amis
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible â€˜Iâ€™â€¦. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
Donâ€™t romanticise your â€˜vocationâ€™. You can either write good sentences or you canâ€™t. There is no â€˜writerâ€™s lifestyleâ€™. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people… — Zadie Smith
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now. — Rod Stewart
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Camera lies all the time. Itâ€™s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when youâ€¦ the moment… — Richard Avedon
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood

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