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Writing Quotes by Kenneth Koch
- I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the…
- Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about..…
- Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like…
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- 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
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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
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- 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