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Best Writing Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there.…
- Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try…
- There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
- When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was…
- The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
- Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
- The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
- Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’…
- That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup…
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- 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
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- 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