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Writing Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
- The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all,…
- Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle…
- Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and…
- We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even…
- I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out…
- I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I…
- I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy…
- The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into…
- Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
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