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Writing Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
- My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
- Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
- He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
- Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get…
- The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
- The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing…
- It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
- I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
- I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
- It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is…
- Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure…
- It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell…
- Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you…
- Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
- Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
- This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it…
- I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
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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
- 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
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov