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Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write. — Philip Sidney
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,… — Philip Pullman
I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write. — Stephen Chbosky
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about. — Leslie Poles Hartley
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And… — James K. Morrow
Write about what you don't know about what you know. — Eudora Welty
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. — Kurt Vonnegut
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to… — William Faulkner
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it… — Franz Kafka
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. — Richard Brautigan
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. — Margaret Atwood
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if… — Richard Bach
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot… — M.F.K. Fisher
The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices. — Richard Paul Evans
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… — Virginia Woolf
If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write… — William T. Vollmann
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… — Umberto Eco
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes… — Edwidge Danticat
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back… — Jennifer Egan

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