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Writing Quotes by Tanith Lee
- Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
- Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it,…
- I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women,…
- It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
- If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence…
- I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and…
- I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
- I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight…
- I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong,…
- Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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
- 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