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Writing Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough…
- I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
- At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly,…
- The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
- Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the…
- One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
- A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
- I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I…
- We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- 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
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden