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Writing Quotes (page 148)

I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character? Helen Prejean
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer. Candace Bushnell
Dear Die-ary, I've been to heaven and hell...and I still don't know if there is a god or a devil. Still...it's something to write about. Jhonen Vasquez
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words. Orhan Pamuk
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad. Stephen King
Emilie Autumn quote: "I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is..."
I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me Emilie Autumn
Robert Byrne quote: "Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but..."
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. Robert Byrne
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one. Katherine Mansfield
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation. Wallace Stegner
Paulo Coelho quote: "That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing,..."
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. Paulo Coelho
J. K. Rowling quote: "She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am,..."
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. J. K. Rowling
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's... Orson Scott Card
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal. Anne Lamott

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