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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — J D Salinger
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not… — Darren Shan
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. — Bess Streeter Aldrich
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I… — Marcel Proust
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. — John Updike
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there… — Natalie Goldberg
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk;… — Steven Johnson
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do… — Zadie Smith
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang… — George Eliot
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood… — Mark Twain
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only… — Christopher Moore
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom… — Anne Lamott
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at… — Flannery O'Connor
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. — Carol Shields
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look… — Stephen King
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published… — Anne Lamott
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and… — Anne Lamott
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd… — Anne Lamott
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much… — Jim Elliot
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. — Charles Bukowski
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food,… — Tina Fey
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this… — Haruki Murakami

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