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Writing Quotes by Peter Carey
- At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough.…
- Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
- I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest…
- I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me…
- The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but…
- If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over,…
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