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Writing Quotes (page 161)

W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes..."
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. W. Somerset Maugham
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! Terry Prachett
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. Jane Austen
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. Ernest Hemingway
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."
A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. Simone de Beauvoir
Martin Luther quote: "If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. Martin Luther
Charles Bukowski quote: "the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries..."
the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear. The Wine of Forever Charles Bukowski
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. Christopher Hitchens
Taylor Swift quote: "If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it,..."
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. Taylor Swift
It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me Witold Gombrowicz
Even the imperative to make choice after choice without clear guidance - allegedly the most nerve-wracking part of the profession - isn't exclusive to writing. Daniel Smith
Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten. H. Rider Haggard
Ernest Hemingway quote: "The author must write what he has to say, not speak it."
The author must write what he has to say, not speak it. Ernest Hemingway
Haruki Murakami quote: "If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the..."
If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing? Haruki Murakami
When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and a failure. Her judgement of his work was arrogant. What else of consequence did she ever write? And of the two, who was dead - and who was not? Dean Koontz

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