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Writing Quotes by Alan Bennett
- I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
- Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
- ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of…
- Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the…
- Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — 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
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch