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Writing Quotes by Marguerite Young
- All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking…
- The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
- I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was…
- If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
- I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book…
- I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
- There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't…
- A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a…
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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
- 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