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I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one… — Lorrie Moore
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it.… — Atul Gawande
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:… — Joe Dunthorne
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,… — Eudora Welty
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it;… — Charles Dickens
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out — Michael Ondaatje
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but… — Madeleine L'Engle
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury… — Lew Wallace
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. — H.G. Wells
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. — Epictetus
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's… — Dorothy Parker
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. — Voltaire
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able… — Matthew Gregory Lewis
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by… — Natalie Goldberg
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my cloak… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… — Anne Lamott
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write. — Eric Weiner

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