Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

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You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

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Writers will happen in the best of families.

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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• Writing

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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• Writing

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.

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The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.

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• Inspirational