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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. — Oscar Wilde
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time… — Ann Patchett
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me. — Donald Hall
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the… — Franklin P. Adams
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question… — Ernest Hemingway
The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things… — Tom Stoppard
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. — A. S. Byatt
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write… — William Shakespeare
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over… — Erica Jong
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg
And I could write it better than you ever felt it. — Pete Wentz
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth… — Groucho Marx
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a… — Flannery O'Connor
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. — Eudora Welty
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in… — Thomas Wolfe
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. — Pablo Neruda
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into… — Kurt Vonnegut
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… — Lorrie Moore
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of… — Anton Chekhov
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual — Virginia Woolf
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and… — Franz Kafka

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