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Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
LINDA COLLISON
If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
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I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN
If you’re reading it in a book, folks, it ain’t self-help. It’s help.
GEORGE CARLIN
Be curious, ask questions
SOTONYE ANGA
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.
JOHN CHEEVER
I've always written music the way I felt it. I write for the public because I feel like the public, ...
HARRY WARREN
You write a hit the same way you write a flop
ALAN LERNER
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
ALAN JAY LERNER
You write a hit the same way you write a flop
ALAN JAY LERNER
She signs the statement. She has me write it out; she doesn't want to write it out. By the way, she ...
UNDERSHERIFF ERN HUDSON
It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself...
SAM DEW
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
WILLIAM SAROYAN
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then y...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH
It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. MILNE
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful.
DAVID AKERS
Write a program in efficient way as you write for kernel scheduler
AHMAD MOAWAD
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
DAVID GUTERSON
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
BEN MEZRICH
Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their...
MELODIE RAMONE
And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I ...
R.B. O'BRIEN
When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.
ELISE STOKES
It’s very hard to invent a pen but very easy to write with the same.
CHANDAN KUMAR DE
Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
E. L. JAMES
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen...
LAINI TAYLOR
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it me...
CAMERON CONAWAY
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
JOHN CLEESE
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you do...
DEENA METZGER
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought proces...
DONALD MCKAY
Write It, Work It, Publish
CHERRY-ANN CAREW
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING
I cannot write epic but I can write simple and make it epic
HARISH D. WATHORE
We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, w...
BEN WINDSOR
It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.
M.F. MOONZAJER
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write
GERTRUDE STEIN
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES
I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words
JOHN FOWLES
Simple is the only way I can write.
DON GIBSON
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
It's more of a parody. We didn't start that way, but the way we write and think, it turns into a com...
EDWARD SEYMOUR
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hour...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it rig...
TOM CLANCY
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, ...
FRANK O'HARA
It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE
It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
JAKE HALPERN
Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER
There's no way we can hand-write all of the checks we have to write to vendors without the computers...
BRAD BECKER
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that ...
AL YANKOVIC
Don't cry about it. Write about it.
CRYSTAL WOODS
Write like it matters, and it will.
LIBBA BRAY
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
LEE CHILD
One word after another.
That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves comin...
NEIL GAIMAN
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to w...
THEODORA GOSS
I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK
I will write my way into another life.
ANN PATCHETT
The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism abo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
BILLY COLLINS
When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
CAROLYN CHUTE
It takes less time to learn how to write nobly than how to write lightly and straightforwardly
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
History ain’t so important when yer just trying to survive,” I say, spitting it out under my bre...
PATRICK NESS
I write because I love it, not because I excel at it.  But because I write, I shall slowly e...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMINEZ
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
A. S. BYATT
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notic...
RICK REILLY
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'...
JACK LEMMON
If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
I'll write it in - in marker.
ANDY MILONAKIS
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for...
PAUL THEROUX
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in...
J. K. ROWLING
Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
JAMES TOBACK
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and...
JESSE STUART
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a ...
LEO BURNETT
Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. S...
ANDY WEIR
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
BETH ORTON
What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.
MARTY RUBIN
Please... Please

...

Please tell this people after few more words that you are...
DEYTH BANGER
It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only...
VOLTAIRE
If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn your...
JANE AUSTEN
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experime...
CARL SANDBURG
Ack!" I said.

Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.
JIM BUTCHER
It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL
Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It’s another way of keeping yourself in check. I...
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haun...
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest mom...
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And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane peopl...
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anyw...
JACK KEROUAC
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in ne...
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Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and...
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we pass the fields of Perry and Madrone and where they make wine, and it's all there, all sweet the ...
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JACK KEROUAC
At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clou...
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til...
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...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
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Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your...
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
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Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
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His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
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I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
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What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
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We agreed to love each other madly.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
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And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
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...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
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...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
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...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
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I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
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