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Writing Quotes by Harry Crews
- We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?…
- If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham,…
- Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else,…
- Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ...…
- If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of…
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- 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