"I am transcribing a book that I have,……" — Charles Yu
"I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write."
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35 Quotes by Charles Yu
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You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one…
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This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you…
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Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required…
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I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who…
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Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her,…
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I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next…
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It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it…
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Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed.…
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful…
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Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
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I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's…
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I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling…
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More Always Writing Quotes
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
— Jeff Bridges
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,…
— Katherine Mansfield
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I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear…
— Michael Jackson
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Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in…
— Tim McGraw
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I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so…
— Lucinda Williams
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I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a…
— Dorianne Laux
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
— Patricia Cornwell
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Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a…
— Jess Walter
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
— Kris Allen
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I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.
— Rick Wakeman
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