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341 My Writing quotes by 279 unique authors
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
— Zane Grey
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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are…
— Caleb Carr
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My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
— Russell Banks
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I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them…
— Eliza Coupe
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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice…
— Beverly Cleary
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable…
— Ricky Jay
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I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
— Lydia Davis
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I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.
— Samuel R. Delany
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey…
— Ted Dekker
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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
— Alex Flinn
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all…
— Haruki Murakami
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
— Iris Johansen
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Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
— Seth Godin
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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say…
— Todd Gitlin
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When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would…
— Tom Glazer
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I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
— Jessica Hagedorn
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
— Jessica Hagedorn
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I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.
— Michael Ironside
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My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment?…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has…
— Ma Jian
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