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Writing Quotes by Nicholson Baker
- When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
- If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a…
- Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
- While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted…
- I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs.…
- Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three…
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- 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
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- 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