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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.


Nathalie Sarraute

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TOM PERROTTA I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I ca...
PATRICK CARNEY Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.
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RAY BRADBURY Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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DANNEL MALLOY I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
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KAREN HESSE I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c...
LIBBA BRAY Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two hal...
MATT GROENING I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to wr...
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MIKE BIRBIGLIA Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.
BO DIDDLEY I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write ...
BRUCE VILANCH I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
ALBERT KING I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big d...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big d...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
BALTHUS Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others...
CECELIA AHERN I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it...
CANDACE BUSHNELL That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't...
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JACKIE COLLINS I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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EARL LONG It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself...
SAM DEW Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write ou...
BEN E. KING I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin...
DIANA GALBADON Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ...
HILARY MANTEL Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu...
JODI PICOULT I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
GARRY WILLS A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't...
BRIAN SELZNICK I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel...
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MARVIN HAMLISCH When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
NORMAN MAILER I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
JIM HARRISON People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
BRYCE COURTENAY People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't ...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l...
ITALO CALVINO I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to c...
GENE LUEN YANG I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don'...
VICTORIA JACKSON For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people wh...
MATT WALSH I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t...
DIANE WAKOSKI A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but...
MARGUERITE YOUNG I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
DAVE DAVIES I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin...
BROWNIE MCGHEE I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure o...
BEBE REXHA I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good...
RAINBOW ROWELL I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'...
BARRY EISLER I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap...
CASSANDRA CLARE Never regret what you don't write.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin...
RANSOM RIGGS I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no...
CHRIS STAPLETON I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don...
DAN AYKROYD There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r...
HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can...
HENRY R. LUCE I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ...
EVE BUNTING Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of ot...
EDWARD HIRSCH Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write ...
BILL CALLAHAN My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, do...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
RANDY NEWMAN I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can ...
A. S. BYATT My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo...
DAVID LEVITHAN What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi...
CAROL BURNETT I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON I don't think I could write a straight drama.
DAVID E. KELLEY Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
WALLY AMOS I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them...
ALAN JACKSON When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familia...
SATYAJIT RAY I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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CASSANDRA CLARE I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
KERRY KING I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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NGAIO MARSH I don't like people who don't have opinions.
DAVID KOECHNER I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poet...
ELLEN BASS Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I...
CHINUA ACHEBE I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who wr...
PAULA FOX I don't know how to write love letters.
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