Best My Writing Proverbs
341 My Writing quotes by 279 unique authors
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
— Anne Enright
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
— Steve Harvey
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My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
— Anthony Horowitz
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I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that…
— Jewel
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In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can…
— Mindy Kaling
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details…
— George R. R. Martin
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I…
— Haruki Murakami
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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
— Robert Morgan
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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a…
— Haruki Murakami
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I…
— V.S. Naipaul
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My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something,…
— Conor Oberst
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning…
— Ben Okri
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of…
— Jodi Picoult
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My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
— Jason Reitman
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My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
— Tom Robbins
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I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
— Rick Riordan
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I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and…
— Tom Robbins
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's…
— Jerry Saltz
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing…
— Jose Saramago
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For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father…
— Jill Scott
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