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Writing Quotes by Michael Pollan
- Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of…
- Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure…
- My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
- Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
- Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
- That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or…
- Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.
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