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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. ↗

— John Irving

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I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal. ↗

— Kerry King

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We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. ↗

— Otis Rush

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Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

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I have never sought the reason why I write. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need. ↗

— George Saunders

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