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Writing Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
- The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading…
- A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really…
- Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking…
- The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence…
- You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to…
- People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push…
- And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it and deal with…
- I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
- Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
- Write like a motherfucker.
- Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.…
- Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the…
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