„I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been.“

— William Saroyan

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„There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.“
— Agatha Christie
„I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„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
„Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.“
— Haruki Murakami
„It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can’t write five words but that I change seven.“
— Dorothy Parker
„In a way, I was safe writing“
— Franz Kafka
„I can’t write five words but that I change seven.“
— Dorothy Parker
„They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.“
— A.A. Milne