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Writing Quotes by Amy Tan
- I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED.…
- You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have…
- The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the…
- I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
- I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up…
- We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I…
- You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation.…
- In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
- Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
- It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
- I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
- I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your…
- I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the…
- You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like…
- Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
- My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- 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 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 the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- 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
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov