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Writing Quotes by Jonathan Ames
- To write about a place, you have to live there.
- I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
- A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
- It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
- Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
- When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could…
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