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Writers And Writing Quotes (page 4)

Gertrude Stein quote: "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with..."
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Gertrude Stein
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. Anne Tyler
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that. Charlaine Harris
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. Mark Haddon
Alistair Maclean quote: "I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. Alistair Maclean
Hugh Leonard quote: "I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do..."
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. Hugh Leonard
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. Peter Shaffer
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing. Rupert Sanders
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world. Iris Johansen
Tahar Ben Jelloun quote: "I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak..."
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. Tahar Ben Jelloun
I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves. J. A. Jance
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work... Orson Scott Card
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed. Jerry Pournelle
Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes it up. And the job, my job, as a dramatist, was not to write accurately, but to write persuasively. If and when I do my job well, subsequent cowboys, as it were, will talk like me. David Mamet
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. David Guterson

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