Best My Writing Quotations
341 My Writing quotes by 279 unique authors
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I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was…
— Marguerite Young
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences;…
— Gene Wolfe
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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all…
— Martin McDonagh
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My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life,…
— Gary Lutz
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I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing…
— Unknown Author
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I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to…
— Kenneth Patchen
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I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by the kitchen window.…
— Bonnie Friedman
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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide.…
— Gary Cherone
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
— Lynn Abbey
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I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
— Amy Lee
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
— Joe Eszterhas
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When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks…
— Anne Tyler
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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
— Michael Pollan
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence…
— Tanith Lee
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However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
— Sue Grafton
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very…
— Athol Fugard
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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to…
— Seth Godin
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
— Isabel Allende
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the…
— Erica Jong
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.
— Peter D. Kramer
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My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in…
— H. L. Mencken
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