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Writing Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'
- Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could…
- Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you…
- Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
- Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to…
- I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
- If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…
- I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He…
- I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to…
- A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
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