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Writing Quotes by Philip Pullman
- I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there,…
- If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is…
- What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than…
- What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for…
- My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing
- For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music,…
- If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.
- Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.
- Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
- There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as…
- If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages,…
- I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
- I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
- I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,…
- After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
- If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a…
- As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
- Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
- All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors…
More Writing Quotes
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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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