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Writing Quotes by Gene Wolfe
- You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
- I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And…
- I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can…
- Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two…
- My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences;…
- Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.
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