Quotes 421 till 437 of 437.
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Writing is thinking on paper.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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