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When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace. - Patrick Ness
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -Frank Zappa
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ― Sinclair Lewis
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. - Wally Amos
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. -Frank Zappa
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
