Writing Quotes
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
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So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
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I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
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In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.
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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.
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It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
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No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
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The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.
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Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
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Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
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If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
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Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
