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To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole… — Kurt Vonnegut
He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort… — Ford Madox Ford
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are… — Marya Hornbacher
When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too?… — Nicholas Sparks
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. — Jeanette Winterson
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good — Primo Levi
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes… — Stephen King
When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write… — Joss Whedon
Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then… — Carlo Collodi
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be… — Gail Carson Levine
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to… — Fernando Pessoa
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t. — Lauren DeStefano
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of… — Flannery O'Connor
I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out. — Shannon Hale
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford
Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window,… — George R. R. Martin
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and… — Madeleine L'Engle
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life… — Jennifer Donnelly
Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool,… — Kate Chopin
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or… — Kurt Vonnegut

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