962 Quotes About Writing-life
- Author Cormac McCarthy
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I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]
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- Author L.L. Barkat
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Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing
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- Author Darlene Craviotto
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Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
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- Author Lettie Prell
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I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.
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- Author Thomas McGuane
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Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
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- Author Chila Woychik
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When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is grab a hatchet, slice off its head, and bury it.
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- Author Glen Hirshberg
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I’m a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any chance I get, anywhere I am, for as long as life will let me. Music helps. Good light helps. I love quiet and coffee when I can get them. But I can write on a bus, in a dentist office’s waiting room, in bed with a clip-on booklight, almost anywhere. And I try to do at least some every single day.
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- Author Katrina Monroe
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Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.
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- Author Grace Bridges
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Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.
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