Best My Writing Sayings
341 My Writing quotes by 279 unique authors
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I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected…
— Christopher Darden
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I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
— Christopher Darden
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My education and background thoroughly inform my writing
— David Brin
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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and…
— Robert Caro
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I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even…
— Elfriede Jelinek
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Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of…
— Michael Pollan
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And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing…
— Julia Cameron
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life…
— Rita Dove
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I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to…
— Roxane Gay
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
— R. Kelly
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In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
— Christopher Paolini
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My writing is a picture of the mind moving.
— Philip Whalen
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Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader.…
— Margaret Mahy
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I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at…
— Macklemore
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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how…
— Hans Zimmer
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My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to…
— James Ellroy
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I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
— James Ellroy
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I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do…
— Carolyn Chute
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
— Alex Haley
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When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch.…
— Eric Hoffer
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday…
— Anne Tyler
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For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm…
— Robert Fulghum
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