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Writing Quotes by Dani Shapiro
- With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle…
- Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
- Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the…
- Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
- The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself.…
- Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
- If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
- How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
- Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in…
- It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
- If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in…
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