Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

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Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

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You don’t make art out of good intentions.

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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

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Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

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It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

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