J. M. Coetzee Quotes

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

J. M. Coetzee

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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

Ornette Coleman
- People
- Up
- Good
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Book
- Doing
I love writing songs.

Sade Adu
- Writing
- Love
- Songs
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

Barbara Kruger
- Work
- Different
- Writing
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

J. R. Moehringer
- Up
- Writing
- Words
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Pankaj Mishra
- Writing
- Kind
- Wisdom