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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose… — Susan Griffin
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses. — Unknown Author
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. — Adrian Rogers
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. — Bill Joy
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective — Ernest Hemingway
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain. — C.S. Lewis
Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one… — Kanye West
I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write… — Matt Smith
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to… — Kim Basinger
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. — James J. Corbett
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. — John Braine
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not… — John Braine
My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills an Ann-shaped space… — Ann B. Davis
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I… — Unknown Author
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. — Todor Zhivkov
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people… — Antony Beevor
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. — Antony Beevor
I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security… — James Risen
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world… — Bill Withers
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. — Barry Mann
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. — Barry Mann
I wanted to write for Broadway. — Cynthia Weil
I can't seem to write young enough anymore. — Cynthia Weil
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write… — Donald Margulies

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