Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

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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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

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If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

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You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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