962 Quotes About Writing-life


  • Author Carlos Monsiváis
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    Los escritores compensan la falta de estímulo escribiendo para el porvenir, o mejor, para esa forma cálida del porvenir que es el reconocimiento de unos cuantos, no necesariamente amigos.

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  • Author Alexander Chee
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    PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

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  • Author Gert Loveday
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    I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings.

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  • Author Tim Kreider
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    It’s hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it’s also just about impossible to figure out what it might be, or how best to say it, without getting the hell out of it again.

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  • Author Jenny Offill
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    My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

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