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Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

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No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. ↗

— Dario Argento

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A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10. ↗

— Miguel Ferrer

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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. ↗