If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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Jackie Collins
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --
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Anonymous
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
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Nikki Giovanni
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
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Alexei Maxim Russell
...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
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Andrea A. Lunsford
More Quotes By Michel Houellebecq
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would...
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things — even tragedy — with a sense of irony. There’s some truth in it; it’s pretty stupid of them, though. Humor won’t save you;...
