"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."

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"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."

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"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."

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"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."

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"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."

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"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."

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"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young."

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"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."

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"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons."

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"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."

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"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."

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