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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and… — Neil Gaiman
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your… — Haruki Murakami
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds."… — Terry Pratchett
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. — Mark Nepo
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.… — Anne Carson
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A… — Tom Clancy
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Daniel Handler
Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you… — Rick Riordan
...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits,… — Ryukishi07
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. — Astrid Lindgren
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants… — Joanne Harris
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream… — Susan Sontag
It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down,… — Donna Tartt
Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use… — Richelle Mead
My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever unleashed in my… — Laini Taylor
That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in… — Ruth Ozeki
Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have… — Rainbow Rowell
I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the… — Andrea Gibson
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. — Samuel Johnson
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it… — M.F.K. Fisher
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. — Grantland Rice
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a… — Mark Twain

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