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Writing Quotes by Sam Shepard
- There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross…
- When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All…
- The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into…
- I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted…
- In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,…
- I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where…
- I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be…
- To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel…
- For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have…
- I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
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