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Writing Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
- Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by…
- Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
- Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write,…
- You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language…
- If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I…
- Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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