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“I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.”

“I write between the lines but then I write only one line.”

Satire Critique Between The Lines Double Meaning

“I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.”

People Thinking Writing Book Ideas Levels Difficulty Sentences New Ideas

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.”

Writing Book Hard

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.”

People Thinking Way Love Writing Book Stories Age Language Grows Decision Behavior Exploration Fascinated Giver Tick Decisions We Make

Author:Lois Lowry

“I write books, bitch!”

Books Author Writer Bitch Junnita Jackson

Author:Junnita Jackson

“I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.”

Writing Book Ideas Different Kids Age Young Groups Adults Teenager Range Different Ideas

Author:Catherine Jinks

“I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.”

Giving Writing Book Ideas Helping Remember Form Fighting Felt Blood Danger Protect Late Weapons Everyday Monsters Teenager Too Late Epic

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.”

Writing Important Book Young Levels Adults Young Adult Being The Best Our Future Very Deep

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.”

Writing Book Reading Enjoy Behinds Reader Standing Shoulders

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I write books in order to tell African stories to the next generation of African youths because a lot of African youths don't write. If they write something, it is Facebook and Twitter statuses and so i exist to change that sleeping narrative”

Inspirational Qoutes

Author:Joseph Kalimbwe

Source: Persecuted in search of change

“I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.”

Thinking Should Writing Children Book Seems Kids Audience Critics Suitable

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"”

Way Writing Firsts Doe Book Lines Down And

Author:Carl Reiner

“I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.”

Ifs World Giving Feels Writing Children Littles Has Beens I Can Book Kids Opportunity Poor Teacher Pieces Citizens Changing The World Empowering Worth It Poorest Good Citizen

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.”

People Writing Book Audience Influence Messages Increase Influencing People

Author:Les Parrott

“I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.”

Writing Book Pain Periods Prime

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“i write books w/my right hand but i also want the book to be given to that same hand on judgement day”

Judgment Day Judgement Day Day Of Judgement

Author:Xayaat Muhummed

Source: The Breast Mountains Of All Time Are In Hargeisa

“I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.”

Giving Writing Book Opportunity Comic Comic Book Lectures

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.”

Writing Trying Book Home Terrible Ethics Coffee Tendencies Organized Shops Work Ethic Deadline Coffee Shop

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe a novel that grapples with the horrors of World War II as anything but grueling. But Codex Orféo is somehow...well, I hope, riveting for readers. Deeply provocative. Cinematic in a nearly surreal sense.”

World Writing War Novel Horror Historical War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Surreal Ecological Provocative

Author:Michael Tobias

“I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.”

Writing Film Notes International Boxes

Author:Bruce Bennett

“I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy”

Writing Humor Inspiration Funny Found Ears Typewriters

Author:Groucho Marx

Source: The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx

“I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like my teacher Marilynne Robinson, she only writes one draft. I've thought about this a lot; I think it's because she writes it 80 times in her head before it comes out.”

Thinking Writing Teacher Crazy Notebook

Author:Peter Orner

“I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.”

Way Writing Written Pure Tables Collaborating

Author:Amy Lee

“I write by silence, because of silence, in silence.”

With Love

Author:Petra Hermans

“I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.”

Writing Heart Character Stories Moving

Author:Robert Crais

“I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brown skin who's viewed differently by the world. In terms of his culture, we're thinking about where we are locating Wakanda within the continent, and what the people and history of that region are like. It's a process of investigation to help inform the story at this point. But we are going to be engaged with consultants who are experts on the continent and on African history and politics.”

“I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.”

People Knows Writing Character Elements

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong. Regardless of the setting, location, period, or gender, everybody has their own moral compass.”

Action Crime Suspense

Author:Peter P. Sellers

“I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.”

People Way Writing I Can Ideas Drug

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I write constantly about everything.”

Writing

Author:Tom Sturridge

“I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later.”

People Want Writing Years Home Lasts Three Reading Fun Bed Journal

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.”

Ifs Way Writing I Can Done Next Chance Knowing Projects Flow Blind Experiments Ongoing Edits Alleys

Author:Grant Morrison

“I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.”

Want Writing Fiction Reader Contemporary Contemporary Fiction

Author:Alex Flinn

“I write cozy mysteries where every book delivers a fresh puzzle, a fair trail of clues, and a community you’ll want to live in. If there are cats, dogs, or pies involved, it’s probably mine.”

Cozy Mystery Amateur Sleuth Cozy Mystery Series Women Sleuths Amateur Sleuths

Author:Samantha Noble

Source: A Deadly Slice Of Pie

“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.”

People Writing Use Hands Speak Paper Hardest Dialogue Description Typewriters

Author:Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.”

Way Writing Years Kind Long Book Different Use Five Six Projects Years Ago Sentences Invisible Evolve Parks Sunset Different Kinds New Ways Breakthrough Exhilarating

Author:Paul Auster

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

Thinking Way Writing Speak Darkness Ought

Author:Franz Kafka

Source: Letters to Ottla and the Family

“I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Would Be Certain Amount Shocked Calories Dieting

Author:Ruby Gettinger

“I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round.”

Writing Looks Rounds Cards Bags

Author:Yani Tseng

“I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.”

Want Writing Trying Views Imperfect Portions Fragments Keep Trying

Author:James Salter

“I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.”

Needs Writing Pages Size Construction Dozen Sculpture Edits

Author:Grant Morrison

“I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.”

Ifs Writing Language Drama London English Language

Author:William Monahan

“I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself.”

Writing Play Young Song Individual Realizing Chance Wonder Musician Solo Good Chance

Author:Warren Zevon

“I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.”

People Thinking Writing Art Stills States Use Morning Crazy Computer Machines Classic Distraction Macs

Author:Wendelin Van Draanen

“I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.”

Writing Reading Half Morning Newspapers Dozen Portions

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Trying Long Morning Sitting Wake Up Awake Defeated Impossibility

Author:Tim Cahill

“I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.”

Way Writing Character Novel Thirds

Author:Andrew Greeley

“I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.”

Writing Romance Sexy Edgy

Author:Simone Elkeles

“I write emotional algebra.”

Writing Emotional Algebra

Author:Anais Nin

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