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Writing Quotes (page 61)

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. Tom Stoppard
You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having... Agatha Christie
Richard Price quote: "You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about..."
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. Richard Price
Abraham Lincoln quote: "if you want your name to be remembered after your death either..."
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading Abraham Lincoln
don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions. Lucille Clifton
You're guaranteed to be lucky several times in your life-it's what you do with it. Young writers spend all their time worrying, in a way that David Gerrold did not and I did not. How do they get to meet the right people? How do they get to the right parties? If only someone would read my script... Forget all that. All these things are easy and will happen. The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's fucking easy. The difficult bit is writing... Steven Moffat
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all. Renata Adler
...But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't. If one could answer these questions in any other way than by writing what one has written, then there would be no point in writing at all. Alan Bennett
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good. Rainer Maria Rilke
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming..."
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. Ursula K. Le Guin
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract. John Kenneth Galbraith
The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. Arthur Schopenhauer
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do--like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy. Martin Amis
Why did he write to her, “I can’t live without you?” And why did she write to him “I can’t live without you?” For he went west and she went east and they both lived. Carl Sandburg
Virgil Thomson quote: "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do..."
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. Virgil Thomson

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