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Writing Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
- Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
- Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
- Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
- I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
- That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
- We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading…
- Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that…
- But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through…
- I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot…
- We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back…
- I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd…
- When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because…
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