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Writing Quotes (page 5)

J. P. Donleavy quote: "Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit."
Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit. J. P. Donleavy
Margaret Atwood quote: "Writing poetry is a state of free float"
Writing poetry is a state of free float Margaret Atwood
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there. Paul Auster
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. Gilles Deleuze
Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up. Anne Lamott
writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act of writing--turns out to be the best part. it's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. Anne Lamott
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Write hard and clear about what hurts."
Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Hemingway
Dorothy Day quote: "Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you..."
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. Dorothy Day
Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side. Haruki Murakami
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny. Alain de Botton
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Writing is like paying myself a formal visi?"
Writing is like paying myself a formal visi? Fernando Pessoa
Writing is the voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks out hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name. Judy Collins
...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend. It didn't have to be successful to be thrilling. Ann Patchett
Jules Renard quote: "writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted"
writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted Jules Renard

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