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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. — Shirley Hazzard
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. — William Shakespeare
I write to discover what I think — Daniel J. Boorstin
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… — Ian Mcewan
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. — Madeleine L'Engle
Write about what you're afraid of. — Donald Barthelme
In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this… — Jean Cocteau
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage… — Bertolt Brecht
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes… — Ray Bradbury
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might… — Franklin P. Adams
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think… — Thomas Pynchon
The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been… — Paul Auster
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. — Charles Caleb Colton
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash. — Neal A. Maxwell
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad… — Robert A. Heinlein
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that –… — Jack Kerouac
Let love write on you for awhile. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid… — Joss Whedon
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that… — Kurt Vonnegut
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world. — Don DeLillo
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s… — Stephen King

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