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Writing Quotes by Nadine Gordimer
- If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in…
- The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is…
- Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's…
- Writing is making sense of life.
- September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem,…
- All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
- The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that…
- Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into…
- Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
- What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of…
- Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
- The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
- Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book…
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