All Quotes By Tag: Writing
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“Create childish words. Comminglewhat you feel with determined,mesmerizing, musicalvoices whispering cry smile wonder.”
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
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“And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.”
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“Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.”
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“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”
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“What are you going to do? “Can’t say – run for president, write -” “Greenwich Village?” “Good heavens, no – I said write – not drink.”
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“…in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.”
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“Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.”
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“What is a writer?A writer is a magician who can create a masterpiece With a wave of a pencilA writer has the key to a new worldCapturing readers and taking them on a roller coaster ride away from realityBut a writer can be a commanding tyrantOr a hypnotist stealing mindsWhat is a writer?A writer is a powerful being, an intelligent thinkerAnd an artist creating mind pictures through words.A writer is a keeper of secretsOr like a roomful of words waiting for a bookBut a writer is also a puppet master taking controlWith no strings attachedWhat is a writer?A writer is a true friendUsing words to spread smiles to the worldA writer is…..The voice of the hear”
“There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write.”
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“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
“The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.”
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“Apollinaire said a poet should be ‘of his time.’ I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.”
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“Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you’re feeling downtrodden. And they said…I’ll stand up for you. You’re not lone anymore.”
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