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Writing Quotes by Gore Vidal
- A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
- I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
- I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of…
- That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want…
- I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
- Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
- Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers…
- I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because…
- I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy…
- Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to…
- Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
- In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
- Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
- Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
- You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much…
- I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
- Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine,…
- The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
- Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he…
- Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a…
- The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
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