Get Written Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,… — Jeffrey Sachs
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that… — Sherwood Anderson
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history… — Erykah Badu
If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written. — Tom Clancy
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written. — Bonnie Friedman
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work. — Stephen Sondheim
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. — Alfred North Whitehead
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no… — Raymond Chandler
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes… — Neil Gaiman
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?â€'afterwards than before There is… — Zora Neale Hurston
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple… — Neil Gaiman
If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've… — Gary Numan
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… — Robin McKinley
Donâ€™t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you… — Anne Lamott
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they… — John Green
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend… — Janet Frame
Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written… — Zora Neale Hurston
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. — Eleanor Catton

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