Quotes 381 till 400 of 437.
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
Source: A Plea for Eros (2007) 41 -
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
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Writing is a craft not an art.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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