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Writing Quotes by Pat Conroy
- Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
- Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them…
- Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
- My mother raised me to be a writer.
- I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto…
- I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
- Writing has never been that simple for me.
- I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This…
- Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
- Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the…
- You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all…
- Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
- Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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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
- 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