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Writing Quotes by Seamus Heaney
- The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to…
- The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
- The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
- I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives…
- Write whatever you like!
- I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
- The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the…
- I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing…
- I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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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
- 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