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Writing Quotes by Joyce Maynard
- My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off…
- As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you…
- If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his…
- I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a…
- When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of…
- The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.
- It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
- The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks…
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- 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