Writing Quotes
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
Judy Blume
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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
Terry Brooks
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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
Sara Sheridan
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My wife likes me better when I'm writing. It centers me and makes me more calm. When I go a long time without writing, I start getting frustrated.
Jonás Cuarón
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You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?
Nicola Roberts
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Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren Adler
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The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.
Stephen McCauley
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
Norm MacDonald
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I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
Helen Keller
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Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.
Cleve Jones
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
Ray Bradbury
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What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.
Michael Koryta
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When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.
Paul Auster
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
Rita Dove
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I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as I'm writing the chapter. I try to go for maximum surprises in PLL, stuff you don't see coming. It's a lot of fun!
Sara Shepard
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What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
Ernest Gaines
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
Cass McCombs
