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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert
I don't write, I build a rhyme. — Kool Moe Dee
A lot of the old-school artists didnâ€™t even respect whatâ€™s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasnâ€™t really… — Kool Moe Dee
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through… — Octavia Butler
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit… — Octavia Butler
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know… — Cameron Crowe
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do… — Greil Marcus
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. — Jennifer Weiner
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,' — Jennifer Weiner
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.… — Mavis Gallant
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by… — Mavis Gallant
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did not… — Unknown Author
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. — John McGahern
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and… — Anne Enright
The only way to write a book, Iâ€™m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. Thatâ€™s how you write a book. — Anne Enright
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig van Beethoven

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