Quotes with letter-writing

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  • Ray Bradbury I don't control my writing - it controls me.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Adele I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Hanif Kureishi I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus I happen to have a very bad fit of the tooth-ache at the time I am writing this.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XII, 6, 8
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Anita Diamant I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Philip Roth I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Busy Philipps I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Philip Roth I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anne Rice I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Seth Godin I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Anne Tyler I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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