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Writing Quotes by Ben Fountain
- I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded…
- I never listen to music when I'm writing.
- I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze…
- I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as…
- The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing…
- The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
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