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Writing Quotes by Edwidge Danticat
- Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest…
- There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating…
- No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes…
- When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
- Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may…
- When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still…
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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
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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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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- 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