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Write what you know is an excellent advice, but I'd also...

Write what you know is an excellent advice, but I'd also add: write only if you really cannot help it.

Quote by Toma Pavel about writing, advice, help, contentment

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come...

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Quote by Francis Bacon about moment

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about writers

Write things for yourself. Come on, it's a great way to spend time. It's a great way to learn history. It's a great way to learn all kinds of things. But only come if you're coming to play. If you're not coming to play, you should get another gig...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about things, history, contentment, time

Writers speak stench.

Writers speak stench.

Quote by Franz Kafka about writers

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Quote by Edna O'Brien about mind, writers, soul

Write what you care about.

Write what you care about.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about contentment

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a...

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Quote by Edna Ferber about literature, writers

Writers are bleeding wounds of culture.

Writers are bleeding wounds of culture.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, writers, culture

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Quote by William Sydney Porter about writing, rules, contentment

A good editor-and I don't claim to be one-can deduce the ideal elements of a writer's style and story and administer the necessary guidance to trick the writer into revealing it.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, style, ideal, good, good luck

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about love, fall, word, contentment

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about opinion, worry, writers

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, ...

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Quote by Edna Ferber about life, writers, defeat, writing, death, love

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Quote by P. L. Travers about books, writers

People don't need writer, but writer do.

People don't need writer, but writer do.

Quote by George Astalos about writers, need, people

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching...

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writers, instinct, good, good luck

Before I was a writer I was a computer programmer.

Before I was a writer I was a computer programmer.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and...

Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and understanding of a writer's mood, but, truly, it takes one to know one.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about risk, commerce, writers

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