Writes Quotes (page 13)

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• writing
• magic
• you me

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant Dorothy Allison

• poetry
• leaving
• writing

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry. Neil Gaiman

• perspective
• serious
• writing

Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world. Chinua Achebe

• writing
• work
• hard

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. Anthony Powell

• writing
• view
• end

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it. George R. R. Martin

• writing
• unveil
• writings

Writing is both mask and unveiling. E. B. White

• love
• personal
• writing

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. Kurt Vonnegut

• writing
• write
• bleeds

Writing is easy. You simply sit at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

• parents
• writing
• dead

Write as if your parents are dead. Anne Lamott

• writing
• one day
• actively

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. Joyce Carol Oates

• writing
• law
• government

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. Leo Tolstoy

• money
• writing
• game

Writing fiction for money is a mug's game. Stephen King

• conscience
• innocent
• beautiful

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. Anne Lamott

• writing
• solitude
• cold

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. Franz Kafka

• work
• thinking
• hand

...write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you. Mindy Kaling