“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
Jackie Collins (1937–2015) British-American novelist and writer
“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Se c'è una sola persona che ha il diritto di scrivere la storia della tua vita, quella persona sei tu: scrivila prepotentemente.
Source: prevale.net
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
"Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15195588 All Things Considered NPR (11 October 2007)
