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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us… — Ray Bradbury
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
You canâ€™t learn to write in college. Itâ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doâ€”and… — Ray Bradbury
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you. — Ray Bradbury
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… — Philip K. Dick
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciouslyÂ â€” but you don't.Â It proceeds from your… — Woody Allen
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes… — Bob Dylan
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe. — Steve Earle
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. — Stephan Pastis
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write… — Garry Trudeau
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's… — Lynn Johnston
There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage… — Finley Peter Dunne
I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know. — Amy Winehouse
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. — Amy Winehouse
I only write about stuff thatâ€™s happened to me.. stuff I canâ€™t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. — Amy Winehouse
I always write what feels really true and honest and me. — Carly Rae Jepsen
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free. — Bruno Mars
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like. — Chinua Achebe
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes… — Anita Desai
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… — Abraham Maslow

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