Quotes 521 till 540 of 578.
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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.
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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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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