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Writing Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need…
- It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
- I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade…
- If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or…
- What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
- I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature…
- I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think…
- That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly…
- When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the…
- Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because…
- At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when…
- That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the…
- A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone,…
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