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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo — Roman Payne
Every wound is a word. — Lailah Gifty Akita
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacill — Erin Bow
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. — Warren Adler
Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that — Alessandra Torre
When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a stor — Roman Payne
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that h — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. — John Waters
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell — Neil Gaiman
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity — Anne Lamott
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. — Sandra Brown
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakin — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
10 Steps to Becoming a Better WriterWrite.Write more.Write even more.Write even more than that.Write when you don’t want — Brian Clark