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Writing Quotes by Lydia Davis
- To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up…
- I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
- I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
- I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one,…
- I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will…
- I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own…
- I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.
- If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is…
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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
- 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