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Writing Quotes by Anne Enright
- The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the…
- Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
- Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your…
- And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and…
- The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
- Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
- I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
- The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there…
- To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
- I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and…
- I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to…
- I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote.…
- I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I…
- You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job.…
- I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
- Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
- Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about…
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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 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