Writing One Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same…
— Dawn French
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A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one…
— Carolyn Forche
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Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
— Peter Abelard
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I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day…
— Jack Kerouac
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There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even…
— Scott Berkun
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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.…
— David Sedaris
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A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.
— Young-Ha Kim
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Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
— William Zinsser
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The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day.…
— Sheila Bender
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There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
— Fred Rodell
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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired…
— Gunter Grass
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
— Dan Simmons
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I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.
— Paullina Simons
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I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing…
— Ned Beauman
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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing -…
— Katherine Mansfield
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One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish…
— George R. R. Martin
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Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative…
— Rick Riordan
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
— Patti Smith
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What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in…
— Thomas Wolfe
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