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Writing Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
- I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have…
- I can't write what I don't believe in.
- The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still…
- Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
- Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself…
- Why write stories? To join the conversation.
- My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore…
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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
- 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