When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

~ Paul Russell

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I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

~ Jenny Moss

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He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

~ Lurlene Mcdaniel

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Read as much as you can to keep the mind as supple as a baby's bum.

~ Jeff Bjune

Jeff Bjune Baby Bum Much Now Read Supple Write

I write for ghosts, the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Donna Lynn Hope Ghost Ghosts Stalkers Write Writing

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

~ Teresa Mummert

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Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

~ Nikki Rosen

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Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

~ Christy Hall

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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

~ Ted Solotaroff

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We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

~ Layne Staley

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When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

~ Ace Antonio Hall

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Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

~ Christy Hall

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You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

~ Christy Hall

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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

~ Tiffany Reisz

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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

~ William Trevor

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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

~ Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne Conversation Write Writing

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

~ Herman Wouk

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...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...

~ John Geddes

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Write like a motherfucker.

~ Cheryl Strayed

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Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations.

~ George Orwell

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Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Darnell Lamont Walker Deaf Write

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

~ Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins Story Boys And Girls Write

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

~ Jerry B. Jenkins

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It's very hard to write humor.

~ Mark Strand

Mark Strand Write Hard Very

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

~ Bruce Feiler

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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell Nothing You Write

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Geoffrey S. Fletcher Outer Space Go Write

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

~ P. J. Harvey

P. J. Harvey Good Soul Write

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

~ Jim Diamond

Jim Diamond Words I Can Write

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

~ John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Heart Public Write

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

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I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.

~ Ruth Rendell

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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

~ Stephen King

Stephen King Tools You Write

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

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I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

~ Harry Styles

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I'm thankful to have time to write.

~ Paul Watson

Paul Watson Time Write

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I write out of my intellectual experience.

~ Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Intellectual Write I Write

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

~ Miranda Lambert

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