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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. Dawn French
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Either write something worth reading or do something worth..."
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin
John Fowles quote: "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who..."
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. Lukas Foss
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. C. S. Forester
They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose. Willa Ford
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. Shelby Foote
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. Wislawa Szymborska
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. Grandmaster Flash
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "You don't write because you want to say something, you write..."
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,' Ron Suskind
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. Ian Hamilton Finlay
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. Helen Fielding
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. Helen Fielding
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. Luc Ferrari

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