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Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my… — Sarah Jio
I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history… — Howard Zinn
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't… — Marguerite Young
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive… — Franz Kafka
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm… — Paula Vogel
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. — Isaac Asimov
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect… — Madeleine L'Engle
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. — Paul Thomas Anderson
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep… — Samuel Beckett
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. — Robert Penn Warren
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's… — Adriana Trigiani
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it. — Jim Lehrer
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing. — Kristin Hannah
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages. — Anne Tyler
Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great. — Nelson DeMille
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a… — Mavis Gallant
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing,… — Ernest Gaines
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they… — Anne Lamott
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose… — Natalie Goldberg
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. — Laura Marling
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive… — Tea Obreht
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at… — Gordon Parks

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