Writing Quotes
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Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.
Quentin S. Crisp
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From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
Jonny Diaz
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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway
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There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
T. R. Pearson
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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
Tom Stoppard
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We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.
John Grisham
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Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
Alma Guillermoprieto
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The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
Jennifer Egan
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I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.
John Tavener
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In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.
John Christopher
