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Write Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist…
- A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
- Most novelists write about twisted lives.
- People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
- When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
- In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk…
- The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of…
- Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — 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
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo