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Writing Quotes by John Gardner
- Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
- People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,…
- As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the…
- We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on…
- To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
- One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts…
- Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
- Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- 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 grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- 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
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov