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Writing Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one…
- It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not…
- Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth…
- The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but…
- Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed;…
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not…
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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
- 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
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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