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Writing Quotes by Athol Fugard
- For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very…
- I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting…
- Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
- Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone…
- With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans…
- The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
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