Writing Quotes
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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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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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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, for me, is a search for God.
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
