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Writing Quotes by Anne Carson
- When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't…
- I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a…
- Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to…
- Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
- Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
- The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.…
More Writing Quotes
- 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
- 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 began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — 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