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Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
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Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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