Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
“You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.”
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 2
Context: I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
“If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 12, Writing About Yourself: The Memoir, p. 98.