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Writing Quotes by Ed McBain
- I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I…
- Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's…
- I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work…
- I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't…
- Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
- Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
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