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Writing Quotes by Tracy Kidder
- You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
- I always want to write something better than the last book.
- I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to…
- I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
- I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a…
- I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth…
- People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
- The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying…
- Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
- At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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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