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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are. ↗

— David Guterson

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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

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Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

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I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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