962 Quotes About Writing-life


  • Author Stanley Christopher
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    I do not, can not write just for money. Lord knows I haven't made much. I write because it is what my Father has given me to do. I do not mean that He woke me one morn, put His finger to my forehead and commanded me write. I mean He quietly and gently in His grace, whispered into my head, into my heart: courage to fail, confidence to succeed, belief in my ability to learn and in my own self worth. So in thankfulness I write.

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  • Author Peter Heller
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    So I wonder what it is this need to tell.To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.

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  • Author Ron Carlson
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    I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

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  • Author Shelby Foote
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    I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

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  • Author Anna Buchan
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    It is wonderful how much news there is when people write every other day; if they wait for a month, there is nothing that seems worth telling.

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