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Writing Quotes by Donald Hall
- Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
- To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we…
- Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
- I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
- If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as…
- Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it…
- I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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