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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same… — Kris Radish
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people… — Annie Dillard
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will… — Annie Dillard
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what… — Annie Dillard
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end,… — Don DeLillo
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but… — Walter Benjamin
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such… — Joseph Campbell
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you… — Joseph Campbell
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… — Flannery O'Connor
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in… — Robert Frost
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose… — Charlotte Bronte
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. — Matsuo Basho
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,… — Brenda Ueland
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all… — Brenda Ueland
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them… — Anne Lamott
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry
It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very… — Benjamin Hoff
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? — James M. Barrie

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