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Writing Quotes by W. P. Kinsella
- Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
- Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word…
- Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years,…
- I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
- Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So…
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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
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- 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