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Writing Quotes by James A. Michener
- As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned…
- I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be…
- I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm…
- The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
- You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
- I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to…
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
- I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where…
- If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one…
- I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
- I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
- If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
- I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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