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Writing Quotes by Cynthia Ozick
- The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
- One reason writers write is out of revenge.
- I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
- Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of…
- I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open…
- One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay…
- If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
- A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and…
- I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born…
- All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
- Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering…
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- 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
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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
- 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