Writing Quotes
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
Etgar Keret
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.
Yayoi Kusama
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Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.
Sarah Dessen
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Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.
Keith Donohue
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I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.
Cole Swindell
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
Ernest Hemingway
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I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
George Saunders
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf
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In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
Marlon James
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I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.
Alan Furst
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Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.
John Lukacs