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Writing Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
- Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
- Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
- I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
- I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
- I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
- Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
- Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer…
- There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
- Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
- I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
- The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they…
- Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I…
- Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
- Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
- ...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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