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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. ↗

— Justin Halpern

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Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. ↗

— Justin Halpern

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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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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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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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I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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