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- That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to…
- I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
- Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
- When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind
- Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write…
- Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are,…
- The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
- Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true…
- Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.
- I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real…
- It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying…
- Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot…
- If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water…
- There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that…
- 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…
- Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no…
- Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
- My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I…
- In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by…
- Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
- Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
- Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt…
- First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't…
- I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there…
- We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden