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Writing Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
- I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
- I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They…
- The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
- Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write…
- There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is…
- I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that…
- ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are…
- Let love write on you for awhile.
- A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things…
- With writing, we have second chances.
- Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could…
- Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and…
- And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't…
- Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it…
- A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
- Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red…
- He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me…
- The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
- Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you…
- I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
- I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty…
- I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here…
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