My Own Writing Quotes
19 My Own Writing quotes by 19 unique authors
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of…
— Eddie Vedder
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I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to…
— Margaret Mahy
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Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
— Kevin Powers
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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification…
— Amy Waldman
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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own…
— Lydia Davis
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I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
— Andy Gibb
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In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
— Michel Houellebecq
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I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing…
— Charles de Lint
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Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life.…
— Erica Jong
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This…
— Pat Conroy
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I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing,…
— Julia Glass
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Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
— Christopher McQuarrie
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I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what…
— John Updike
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I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I…
— Donald McKay
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I love my own writing!!!!!!
— HOttieDeviL
Who Wrote These My Own Writing Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 My Own Writing Quotes as follows: