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I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should… — Harvey Pekar
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write… — Harvey Pekar
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar
I am not a writer except when I write. — Juan Carlos Onetti
Because to write, one must truly suffer. — Juan Rulfo
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best… — Guy Debord
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which… — Penelope Lively
He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just… — Unknown Author
How dare we, all these stupid evangelists walking around telling men after they've made some little prayer that they need to write their name in… — Paul Washer
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two… — Gene Wolfe
Someone ought to write a novel about me, — Catherynne M. Valente

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