962 Quotes About Writing-life
- Author Euginia Herlihy
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Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
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- Author Christy Hall
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New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.
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- Author Ann Patchett
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
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- Author Irwin Shaw
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.
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- Author Tim Kreider
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Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.
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- Author Bonnie Friedman
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Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.
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- Author J.J. Brown
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The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.
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- Author Tasha Golden
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There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if ‘productivity’ and/or ‘usefulness’ are the measures of human value, and — particularly for artists — this is deeply problematic. We shouldn’t given in.
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- Author Stefanos Livos
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Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.
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