#writ

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. ↗

— Chris Colfer

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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