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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way… — John Irving
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books. — Louisa May Alcott
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a… — Anne Rice
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write… — Flannery O'Connor
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your… — Ray Bradbury
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. — Anne Fadiman
I write emotional algebra. — Anais Nin
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own… — Orhan Pamuk
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get… — Thomas Merton
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX… — Chuck Palahniuk
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it… — Emily Dickinson
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out… — Cornelia Funke
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a… — Raymond Carver
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. — Martin Luther
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. — Adrienne Rich
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? — Gilles Deleuze
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation —… — Peter De Vries
My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess… — Alton Brown
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write. — Salman Rushdie
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. — P.G. Wodehouse

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