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“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.”

Mario Vargas Llosa quotes (Peruvian Novelist and Essayist. b.1936)

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“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”

Hugh Prather quotes (American best selling Author, Lecturer and Minister)

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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

Saul Bellow quotes (Canadian born American Novelist, 1915-2005)

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“She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.”

Dudley Clendinen quotes

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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

Gloria Steinem quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1935)

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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

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“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it”

Toni Morrison quotes (American Writer, Teacher and Editor. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993, b.1931)

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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition”

Graham Greene quotes (English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991)

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“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”

Gao Xingjian quotes (Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic, 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1940)

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“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury quotes (American science-fiction short stories and novels writer,1920)

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