Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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• Writing

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

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• Humor

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

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• Writing

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

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• Inspirational

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

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• Writing

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

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• Writing

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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• Writing

When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

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• Writing

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

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• Writing

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

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• Writing

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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• Writing

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

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• Writing

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

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• Writing

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

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• Writing

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

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• Writing