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I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

John Heath-Stubbs

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

William Saroyan

Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

Nenia Campbell

I write to express my love for the humanity.

Debasish Mridha

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.

Debasish Mridha

Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it.

Debasish Mridha

If you don't read you will have nothing to write.

Debasish Mridha

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

Steven Pressfield

I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get up and walk around, eat ice cream, let ideas percolate, forget the story for a time, and then return to the page. Even the muse needs a vacation to rest up before she gives more of herself.

Jan Marquart

I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines

Pawan Mehra

Solitude is very different from a ’time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

Pamela Glass Kelly

Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what you write, and others will, too.

Amanda Emerson

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I live well with very little things but not without my dignity

Rui M.

You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out.

Deyth Banger

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that's it. Think about how you really want to spend your day. Tomorrow, today will be history. It's your life, your history. How do you want to write the history of your life today…?

James A. Murphy

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analysing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.

D.H. Lawrence

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Richelle E. Goodrich

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Slicktor Victor Robinson

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Ryan Lilly

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Cornelia Funke

I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.

Calvin W. Allison

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would go every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life is that the days aren't long enough to write all the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts I'm thinking. I've finished the second draft of my book and am going to begin the third tomorrow morning at half-past seven. It's the sweetest book you ever saw— it is, truly. I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in the morning to dress and eat before beginning; then I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so tired that I'm limp all over.

Jean Webster

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Jean Webster

You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!

Deyth Banger

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Tom Clancy

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.

Andre Dubus

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

David Morrell

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Ben Hecht

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Annie Dillard

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

Steven Pressfield

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

Patti Digh

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.

Christy Hall

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Katelyn S. Bolds

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...

Sanhita Baruah

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

Richelle E. Goodrich

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

Munia Khan

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.

Karris Callahan

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

Janice Valencia Capulso

You are a writer. You just need to write.

Jeff Goins

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

Jenim Dibie

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Annie Dillard

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Annie Dillard

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Jonathan Galassi

Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those who were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

Suzy Kassem

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation, does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at the cats. The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the dedicatory ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things straight.

William Strunk Jr.

There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

Anne Lamott

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

Anne Lamott

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Anne Lamott

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