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Writing Quotes by James Frey
- The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
- Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
- I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I…
- If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have…
- To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
- When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and…
- I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point,…
- I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any…
- I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that…
- Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or…
- Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is…
- I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want to…
- My mistake, and it is one I deeply regret, is writing about the person I created in my mind to help me cope, and not…
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