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She lives the poetry she cannot write. — Oscar Wilde
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. — Terry Pratchett
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with… — Patricia Briggs
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the… — Chris d'Lacey
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come… — Frank McCourt
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this… — David Morrell
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We… — Natalie Goldberg
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. — Herman Wouk
Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what… — Guy Kawasaki
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that… — Stephen King
I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free… — Susane Colasanti
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with… — Isak Dinesen
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.… — Cheryl Strayed
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions,… — Jorge Luis Borges
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped… — Lev Grossman
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about… — Louis L'Amour
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we… — Helene Cixous
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence — Paulo Coelho
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart. — Gary Shteyngart
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank… — Philip Sington
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks
We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down— locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don’t hinder… — Tammara Webber
You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he… — Chris Colfer

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