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Writing Quotes by Don DeLillo
- I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way…
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
- I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
- I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
- I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time,…
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a…
- He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end,…
- I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these…
- It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel…
- I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on…
- For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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