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I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily. — Daniel Handler
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and… — Ahmet Ertegun
Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. — Pontus Hulten
The more we write the less we die. — Brian Kessler
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in… — Orson Scott Card
I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it. — Vanna Bonta
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. — John Updike
Writers don't write, they read and transcribe. — William S. Burroughs
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is… — James Thurber
The really great writers are people like Emily Bront who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. — Thomas Berger
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? — Alexander Pope
I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want… — Joni Mitchell
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such… — Ernest Hemingway
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. — Unknown Author
One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem… — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi
Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since. — Unknown Author
To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this life, to love this life, you have… — Prem Rawat
Why don't you write books people can read? — Unknown Author
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? — James Matthew Barrie
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause… — Roland Barthes
Initially, I didn't start out to be a member of a band. I wanted to make films, write plays, books. When I found myself in… — Jim Morrison
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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