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Writing Quotes by Walt Whitman
- I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
- By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.
- The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
- Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one…
- My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write…
- I hate commas in the wrong places.
- My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was…
- The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
- The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation…
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- 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
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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
- 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