If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J.K. Rowling
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. - Robert Frost
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. - Winston Churchill
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. - J.K. Rowling
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. - Carrie Fischer
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me. - Wayne Dyer
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. - J.K. Rowling
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. - C.S. Lewis
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. - J.K. Rowling
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. - Carrie Fischer
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me. - Larry David
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love. - Wayne Dyer
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going. - J.K. Rowling
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. - C.S. Lewis
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. - J.K. Rowling
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience. - Carrie Fischer
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness. - Wayne Dyer
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