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  • Carolyn Chute Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Boyle Roche While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Alan Paton Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Alexander Pope Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Berger Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
    Thomas Berger
     
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  • Nora Joyce Why don’t you write books people can read?
    Nora Joyce
     
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  • Augusten Burroughs With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Ann Patchett Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Wendell Phillips Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.'' - infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Gore Vidal Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Carol Shields Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Heywood Broun Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Betsy Beers Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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