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Writing Quotes (page 165)

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer. Kurt Vonnegut
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. Stephen King
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. Haruki Murakami
To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing. William Gibson
Tobias Wolff quote: "a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change..."
a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. Tobias Wolff
Ann Patchett quote: "I will write my way into another life."
I will write my way into another life. Ann Patchett
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. Marguerite Duras
Henri Nouwen quote: "People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings..."
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. Henri Nouwen
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death. Gordon B. Hinckley
…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok… Spider Robinson
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that. Nicholas Sparks
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't. Julia Cameron
Sinclair Lewis quote: "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't..."
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write Sinclair Lewis
Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what’s the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say? Emile M. Cioran
Oscar Wilde quote: "She lives the poetry she cannot write."
She lives the poetry she cannot write. Oscar Wilde

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