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Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. — Robert B. Parker
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do… — Richard Bach
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they… — Charles Kettering
Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run,… — Robert Kiyosaki
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny. — Paula Danziger
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in… — Jodi Picoult
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. — George Berkeley
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. — Maurice Gibb
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan… — Augusten Burroughs
We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with… — James Mattis
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for… — Neil Peart
I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started… — John Bonham
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. — Mario Vargas Llosa
I write poetry because I canâ€™t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long… — Gabriela Mistral

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