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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear… — C.S. Lewis
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall.… — Roland Smith
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. — Gertrude Stein
Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like… — Graham Greene
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and… — Graham Greene
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself… — Dorothy Allison
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,… — Audre Lorde
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie… — Chuck Klosterman
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I… — Audrey Niffenegger
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I do not like to write - I like to have written. — Gloria Steinem
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations… — Logan Pearsall Smith
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell… — Margaret Drabble
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is… — Julio Cortazar
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… — Roland Barthes
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier… — Neil Gaiman
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli — Janet Evanovich

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