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Writing Quotes by Denis Johnson
- I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep…
- I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
- Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.
- What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people…
- If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when…
- In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.
- When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
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