962 Quotes About Writing-life
- Author Joan Didion
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As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...
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- Author Brenda Ueland
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At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.
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- Author Leo Rosten
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
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- Author Stephen King
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Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.” Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
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- Author Ray Bradbury
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Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.
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- Author John Irving
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...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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- Author John Irving
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...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.
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- Author Ζυράννα Ζατέλη
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Αν ήμουν σίγουρη ότι θα μπορώ να γράφω και μετά θάνατον, θα πέθαινα κάθε χρόνο ή τουλάχιστον χρόνο παρά χρόνο.
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- Author Neil Young
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No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.
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