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Writing Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you…
- It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
- It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the…
- I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
- When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
- To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
- You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
- I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up…
- A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
- If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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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