My Writing Quotes
341 quotes by 283 authors
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
— J. G. Ballard
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
— Jello Biafra
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
— Alain de Botton
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All of my writing is God-given.
— Ray Bradbury
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
— James Broughton
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
— Rita Mae Brown
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point…
— William S. Burroughs
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
— A. S. Byatt
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped…
— James Rollins
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my…
— Jackie DeShannon
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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
— Isaac Asimov
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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and…
— Maureen Howard
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
— Erica Jong
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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the…
— Amy Tan
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Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
— Irving Wallace
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and…
— Joan Didion
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