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Writing Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
- If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
- I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning…
- Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are…
- When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ...…
- I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I…
- I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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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
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
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