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Writing Quotes by Sloane Crosley
- Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start…
- I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that…
- I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
- I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
- Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
- I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of…
- I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in…
- In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a…
- Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving…
- The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would…
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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
- 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