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- When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it…
- I write to find out what I think.
- Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer…
- Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.
- Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle…
- I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a…
- Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
- It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in…
- It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect…
- If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
- When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be…
- To write is human, to edit is divine.
- All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said…
- I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that…
- When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look…
- You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write,…
- Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
- He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it…
- The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative…
- I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to…
- You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them…
- As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge…
- Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every…
- Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden