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Writing Quotes by Irvine Welsh
- I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity…
- I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
- There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
- Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and…
- When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn…
- I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the…
- When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction -…
- Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
- Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way,…
- The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to…
- When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph…
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
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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
- 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