Writings Quotes (page 181)

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• love
• writing
• search

When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking. Helene Cixous

• writing
• manly
• being a man

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? Gilles Deleuze

• avoiding
• beauty
• universe

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others Allen Ginsberg

• writing
• saying
• fiction writing

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. Nadine Gordimer

• writing
• saying
• sayings

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track. Gore Vidal

• work
• writing
• sometimes

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. Joyce Carol Oates

• writing
• determination
• motivational

I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. George Orwell

• kindness
• feeling
• writing

It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class. Stephen King

• end
• best
• writing

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers. William Strunk, Jr.

• kindness
• writing
• magic

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too. Cornelia Funke

• time
• writing
• she

All the time she writing the world had continued. Virginia Woolf

• caring
• writing
• just

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it Natalie Goldberg

• writing
• talking
• talk

I write to find out what I'm talking about. Edward Albee

• beautiful
• beauty
• writing

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. Robert Cormier

• writing
• evening
• thinking

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. Philip Pullman