Quotes on writing

Ah yes, head full books. hard part force bloodstream fingers. — Edward Abbey, Postcards Ed: Dispatches Salvos American Iconoclast

Edward Abbey Postcards from Ed: Dispatches Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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cannot decide illness a sin, need write things fix flowing world one r — Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier
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every good artist knows gift comes somewhere else, a reason, make worl — James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke
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don’t know start,” one [writing student] wail. Start childhood, tell t — Anne Lamott, Bird Bird: Instructions Writing Life

Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing Life
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…The simple little words came easily, fitting tune come harpsichord. — Elizabeth Goudge, Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge The Little White Horse
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a generation readers span a generation writers. — Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg
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One a painter. a writer, feel beauty, entirely colour, subtle, changea — Virginia Woolf, Letters Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941

1936-1941 The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six Virginia Woolf
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good writer chooses words ‘meaning’, meaning a a set, cut-off thing li — Ezra Pound, ABC Reading

ABC of Reading Ezra Pound
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…Writings stolen, changed, used evil purposes. isn’t risk worth taki — Lloyd Alexander, Arkadians

Lloyd Alexander The Arkadians
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Writing industry now. many ways, a good thing, removes muse-like mysti — Russell T. Davies, Doctor Who: Writer’s Tale

Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale Russell T. Davies
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