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Writing Quotes by Jasper Fforde
- Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even…
- Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of…
- Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
- After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors…
- Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun…
- It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
- Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
- The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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