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I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the… — S E Hinton
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in… — Caroline B. Cooney
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. — Caroline B. Cooney
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other… — David Ives
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. — Gary Jennings
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of… — Allen Tate
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I… — Gavin Rossdale
I don't know why I write what I write. — Bret Easton Ellis
I tend to write in the mornings. — Scott Turow
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at… — Helen Dunmore
I write poems to find out why I write them — Stephen Dobyns
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself… — Iris Chang
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but… — Iris Chang
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write… — Iris Chang
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. — Iris Chang
You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got… — Tony Grisoni
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned… — Tony Grisoni
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland. — Fiona Shaw
I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in… — Daniel Tammet
I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material.… — Jerry Pournelle
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you… — Virgil Thomson
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die. — Farley Mowat
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one. — Farley Mowat
If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10… — Alan Shearer

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