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Writing Quotes by Paul Auster
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it…
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however…
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much…
- Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can…
- When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all…
- Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
- I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
- While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read…
- And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and…
- The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been…
- As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To…
- Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour,…
- Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there,…
- To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and…
- Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music…
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