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Write Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could…
- Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you…
- Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
- Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to…
- I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
- If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…
- I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He…
- I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo