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Writing Quotes by Gertrude Stein
- Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
- I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
- I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
- To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
- If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
- What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I…
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
- You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of…
- it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself…
- It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
- Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
- I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is…
- If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which…
- After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why…
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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
- 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