Andrew Motion
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If you love it, then you've got to write it. GAYLE LYNDS ELMORE LEONARD ELMORE LEONARD WENDY COPE It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day lo... IDRIS ELBA You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if ... KARY MULLIS I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure... SAM COOKE Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that alw... BETSY BEERS JULIA GLASS JACQUELINE EMERSON If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char... JEZ BUTTERWORTH CASSANDRA CLARE TYLER PERRY I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's... MARIA SEMPLE ALAN MOORE MAURICE SENDAK BEBE REXHA I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move... JAMES E. GUNN My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every ... CHRIS BOHJALIAN I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca... TAYLOR SHERIDAN I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER ALICE WALKER MADELEINE L'ENGLE If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn... PETER HAMMILL JERRY SPINELLI JULIA CAMERON I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, &#... DAMIAN LEWIS SARAH PALIN CASSANDRA CLARE JASON STATHAM TA-NEHISI COATES AMY GRANT Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you'v... BARBARA BROCCOLI You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. 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I've never written for any ... MELISSA ROSENBERG I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or ... JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN TERRY BRADSHAW VICTORIA AVEYARD JAMES CORDEN Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, ext... CLAIRE MESSUD GRACE JONES ARUNDHATI ROY ERNEST HEMINGWAY HARRY STYLES I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have... ERIN FOSTER Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co... JAKE OWEN MAURICE SENDAK MAURICE SENDAK TAMORA PIERCE CONOR MCGREGOR You have got to act on instinct; you've got to ride from your heart and let that performer come ... CAROLINE BUCHANAN CHARLAINE HARRIS MALCOLM D. LEE You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.'... 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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... 
Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly.... 
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. 
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