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I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent… — Joyce Carol Oates
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see… — Flannery O'Connor
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. — John Updike
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what… — Franz Kafka
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks
Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a… — Elwyn Brooks White
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why… — Lloyd Jones
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have… — Anne Lamott
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining. — Noel Coward
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco
I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort… — James Howe
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real… — Anne Lamott
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What… — Douglas Adams
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. — Ernest Hemingway
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because… — Nicole Krauss
There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down. — Anne Frank
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's… — Mary Baker Eddy
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know… — Ernest Hemingway

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