#write

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place. ↗

— Neil Diamond

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Writers are always selling somebody out. ↗

— Joan Didion

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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow. ↗

— Martin Gore

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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗

— John Metcalf

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