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Writing Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
- We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
- A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
- Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things,…
- Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
- A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
- Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
- When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
- A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
- The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
- There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to…
- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,…
- When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
- The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
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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