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Writing Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other…
- Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
- Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and…
- If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as…
- The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory…
- I write to understand as much as to be understood.
- Some stories are true that never happened.
- That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life…
- There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the…
- Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
- Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
- In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my…
- Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like…
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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
- 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
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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