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Writing Quotes by Woody Allen
- If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
- Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to…
- That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success…
- What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So…
- I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about…
- In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the…
- That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.
- I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then…
- I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.
- It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.
More Writing Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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