Write Quotes
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
Padgett Powell
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I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.
Dave Mason
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
Ed McBain
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
Pat Conroy
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
Zac Brown Band
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
Calvin Trillin
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
Marianne Williamson
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Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.
Donald Miller
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
Haruki Murakami
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
T. J. Miller
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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
Margaret Mitchell
