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Writing Quotes by David Guterson
- The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
- I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I…
- Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free…
- When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly…
- Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s…
- Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
- What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
- When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
- I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world...…
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- 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
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- 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