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Writing Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it…
- It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that…
- I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
- I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as…
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed…
- Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group…
- I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think…
- I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not…
- The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
- He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
- I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read…
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