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Writing Quotes

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb Picture Quote #1

What’s the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life Picture Quote #1

What I’m constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language Picture Quote #1

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion Picture Quote #1

It’s a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what’s beyond in the darkness, beyond where you’re writing Picture Quote #1

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love Picture Quote #1

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I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties Picture Quote #1

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people Picture Quote #1

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other Picture Quote #1

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering Picture Quote #1

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study Picture Quote #1

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed Picture Quote #1

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I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book Picture Quote #1

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so Picture Quote #1

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting Picture Quote #1

Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have Picture Quote #1

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf Picture Quote #1

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else Picture Quote #1

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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction Picture Quote #1

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life Picture Quote #1

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women Picture Quote #1

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared Picture Quote #1

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable Picture Quote #1

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right Picture Quote #1

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Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven Picture Quote #1

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn’t pull a corpse from its grave, I can’t be dragged from my desk at night Picture Quote #1

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny Picture Quote #1

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands Picture Quote #1

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music Picture Quote #1

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get Picture Quote #1

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I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb (Writing Quotes) What’s the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life (Writing Quotes) What I’m constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language (Writing Quotes) I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion (Writing Quotes) It’s a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what’s beyond in the darkness, beyond where you’re writing (Writing Quotes) Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love (Writing Quotes) I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties (Writing Quotes) Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people (Writing Quotes) Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other (Writing Quotes) I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering (Writing Quotes) We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study (Writing Quotes) There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed (Writing Quotes) I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book (Writing Quotes) If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so (Writing Quotes) I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting (Writing Quotes) Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have (Writing Quotes) I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf (Writing Quotes) I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else (Writing Quotes) Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction (Writing Quotes) Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life (Writing Quotes) When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women (Writing Quotes) Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared (Writing Quotes) When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable (Writing Quotes) And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right (Writing Quotes) Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven (Writing Quotes) Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn’t pull a corpse from its grave, I can’t be dragged from my desk at night (Writing Quotes) Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny (Writing Quotes) Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands (Writing Quotes) I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music (Writing Quotes) Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get (Writing Quotes)

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