Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

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The first draft of anything is shit.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

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If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

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A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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Write what should not be forgotten.

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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

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