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Writing Quotes by Steven Saylor
- We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin,…
- Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love…
- Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that…
- All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
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