One Writes Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've…
— Ted Solotaroff
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
— Rodolphus Agricola
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be…
— Stanley Ellin
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
— Alfred Kazin
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One writes to find words' meanings.
— Joy Williams
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One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
— James A. Baldwin
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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into…
— Paul Muldoon
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said…
— Jackie Collins
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When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
— Stephen Dobyns
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In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and…
— Gerald Jay Sussman
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No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one…
— Jonathan Messinger
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When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
— Julio Cortazar
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We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to…
— Isaac Asimov
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No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar…
— Vince Flynn
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
— Quintilian
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Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
— Lisel Mueller
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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
— Breyten Breytenbach
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