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Writing Quotes by Stephen Fry

14 Writing quotes by Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry’s take on writing balances humor with earnestness, making the creative process feel both grand and accessible. In these fourteen snapshots you’ll catch his love of language, his playful self‑critique, and the occasional reminder that every draft is a step forward.

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“I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.”

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something…

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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy…

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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

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We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person…

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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be…

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I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I…

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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand…

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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…

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Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history…

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I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would…

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To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is…

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The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force…

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“The future is a much bigger deal than the past,”

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I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from…

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Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

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I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You…

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