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Writing Quotes by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
- What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well,…
- Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
- I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
- Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
- Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and…
- I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make…
- I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
- Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
- Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things…
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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