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Writing Quotes by David Mitchell
- Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
- I can write pretty much anywhere.
- Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
- Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
- I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what…
- How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and…
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden