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When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. — Gail Carson Levine
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your… — Nick Hornby
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine,… — Charles Bukowski
Write as if your parents are dead. — Anne Lamott
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that… — Joseph Heller
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil JosÃ©
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with… — Stephen Chbosky
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading! — Unknown Author
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said. — Megan McCafferty
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how… — Charles Bukowski
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters… — Ann Brashares
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the… — Pat Murphy

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