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Writing Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
- Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And…
- There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely…
- To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant,…
More Writing Quotes
- 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
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- 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