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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier… — William Faulkner
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. — Van Morrison
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness,… — Paulo Coelho
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing… — Charles Dickens
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for… — Mark Twain
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the… — Maya Angelou
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor
I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn
If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter. — Dan Poynter
I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours… — Bret Easton Ellis
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. — Gustav Mahler
Let's give the historians something to write about — Propertius
I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are… — Sally Schneider
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent… — Elena Ferrante
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by… — Richard P. Feynman
If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want. — David Ogilvy
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you… — Anne Rice
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write… — Tamora Pierce
It makes me feel like a brother, or a son that people still care for me... that I have so many fans, who write to… — Asafa Powell
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. — Gertrude Stein
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these… — Carl Hiaasen
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? — Raymond Carver
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to… — Aldous Huxley
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. — James M. Cain

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