Write Quotes
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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I just write whenever I can.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?
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I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.
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I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
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If you wish to write, write.
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.
