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Writing Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point…
- I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring…
- Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like…
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't…
- All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's…
- Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that…
- You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go…
- All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
- You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to…
- It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
- I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
- There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a…
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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
- 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