Writes Quotes (page 6)

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• work
• believe yourself
• believe

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. Anne Lamott

• writing
• imagination
• write

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. Neil Gaiman

• dream
• work
• writing

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. Neil Gaiman

• writing
• about
• knowing

Write about what you don't know about what you know. Eudora Welty

• writing
• job
• world

Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure. Warren Ellis

• writing
• cool
• thoughts

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. Henry David Thoreau

• good
• thinking
• writing

Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better. Herman Hesse

• journey
• writing
• unknown

Writing is a journey into the unknown. Charlie Kaufman

• writing
• haunting
• consequence

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows. Joyce Carol Oates

• writing
• writings
• rewarded

Writing is its own reward. Henry Miller

• music
• stupid
• writing

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. Elvis Costello

• book
• writing
• perfect

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. Jorge Luis Borges

• writing
• real
• interested

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. C. S. Lewis

• comforting
• light
• society

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind. Winston Churchill

• writing
• easy
• writings

Writing is easy. You just sit at the typewriter and open a vein. Red Smith