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Writing Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
- This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at…
- I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
- Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction…
- Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
- That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the…
- I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of…
- The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part…
- writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
- Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
- If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
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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
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- 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