Writer Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

10 Writer quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Wurtzel’s unfiltered honesty shines through in these brief quotes, offering a personal snapshot of the writer’s inner dialogue.

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I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

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Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but…

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I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on…

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A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully…

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“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can…

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I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is…

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It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo…

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There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he…

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I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the…

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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants…

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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

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I myself am hell.

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I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that…

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“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is…

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I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind…

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Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul…

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if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

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What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.…

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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning.

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Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to…

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I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

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I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away.

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