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Writing Quotes by Janet Fitch
- Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
- Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:…
- Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
- I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to…
- Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what…
- I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
- My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
- I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring…
- I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't…
- The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,…
- She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never…
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- 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
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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