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Writing Quotes by Jose Saramago
- In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.…
- I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
- I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,…
- The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
- I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my…
- In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
- Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what…
- When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
- I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing…
- I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes…
- The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact…
- Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it…
- If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
- For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- 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