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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't.… — Jean Cocteau
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try… — Charles Bukowski
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. — William Shakespeare
When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was… — Charles Bukowski
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all… — Pat Conroy
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. — Richard Peck
Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the decision. “Yes, list… — Kiera Cass
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job… — Anthony Bourdain
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. — Charles Bukowski
No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate.… — Kate Morton
When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you… — Dashiell Hammett
Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on… — Jack Gantos
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. — Anne Carson
He is exactly the poem I wanted to write. — Mary Oliver
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream… — Haruki Murakami
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. — Ray Bradbury
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly… — Neil Gaiman
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the… — Marianne Williamson
Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance… — Kathy Reichs
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject,… — Jodi Picoult
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they… — Anthony Kiedis
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. — Che Guevara
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of… — Bernard Cornwell
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered… — Kurt Vonnegut

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