Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

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The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

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The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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