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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail. — Eliot Spitzer
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we… — Donald Hall
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as… — Donald Hall
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I… — Jerry Spinelli
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour. — Roald Dahl
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do… — Kate DiCamillo
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I… — Kate DiCamillo
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility… — Kate DiCamillo
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,… — Elwyn Brooks White
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a… — Jason Mraz
Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity. — Glen Keane
Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours… — Enrique Vila-Matas
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Mignon McLaughlin
I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?'… — Bon Scott
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. — Balthus
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a… — Robert Caro
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast, — Robert Caro
I always want to write something better than the last book. — Tracy Kidder
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to… — Tracy Kidder
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a… — Tracy Kidder
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth… — Tracy Kidder
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying… — Tracy Kidder
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really… — Cheryl Strayed
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view,… — Richard Wurmbrand

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