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A.S. Byatt

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GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN They taught me different was wrong.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
JAZMINE SULLIVAN I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a s...
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MELODIE RAMONE I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
CRYSTAL WOODS To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
DAVID GRANN I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri...
AARON NEVILLE I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
BROOKE BURKE Your greatest achievement is to love me.
PRINCE CHARLES I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
BROWNIE MCGHEE Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
EMILY DICKINSON Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your ...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your p...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY 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 Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show yo...
TRISTAN WILDS I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'...
CAROLINE LEAVITT Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word...
RAY BRADBURY I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want somethin...
ROBERT GOULD SHAW I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
BILLY BRAGG [Her] love and tenderness gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and writ...
EUGENE O'NEILL The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN Sometimes the little things are what means more to me
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
J. K. ROWLING I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. SALINGER A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
ROY AYERS I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son...
GEORGE HARRISON Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to w...
THEODORA GOSS I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
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LISA J. SHULTZ The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro...
JAMES BAY To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t...
ISAIAH MUSTAFA I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
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A.J. CHILSON To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.
AVIJEET DAS Only the old people write me in longhand!
BRETT SOMERS I came up with a new reason
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I plagiarized each letter
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JUSTIN WETCH I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script...
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THEHEALTHFOODGURU I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
ALBERT CAMUS Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
DODIE SMITH I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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A.A. GUPTE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
MATTHEW PRIOR You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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DEBORAH HARKNESS The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write somethi...
GEORGE GERSHWIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The m...
LAUREN LONDON Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
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J.D. SALINGER I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
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