Writing Quotes
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When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.
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It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.
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Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
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I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.
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I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
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TODAY can be a healthy unusual day for you-and for others-if you take time to give someone a smile . . . to express a word of kindness . . . to lend a helping hand to someone in need . . . ..to write a note of gratitude . . . to give a word of encouragement to someone who is temporarily overcome with problems . . . to share a portion of your material possessions with others.
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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
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Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
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Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from a much deeper place.
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She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.
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It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
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A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
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When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
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I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
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If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.
