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Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
Africaâ€™s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame
Everything I write has a precedent in truth. — Ian Fleming
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day… — Ian Fleming
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all… — Paul Auster
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all… — James Joyce
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. Iâ€™m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense… — Kay Ryan
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history. — Paul Watson
It doesnâ€™t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs… — Regina Spektor
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. — Daniel Keys Moran
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come… — John Cage
After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, â€˜In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.â€™ Â… — John Cage
Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when… — Gayle Forman
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal… — David Almond
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but… — Wes Anderson
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can. — Ernest Hemingway
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It… — Ernest Hemingway
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I… — J D Salinger
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when… — Patty Murray

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