Tag: writing
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“If it was just a matter of putting things down that happen to you…. you wouldn’t be a novelist.”
“The secret to writing is writing. It’s only a secret to people who don’t want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.”
“Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.”
“I don’t have to dream, because I can write.”
10 Rules of Writing, No. 8: “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep…”
“Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they… “
“Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun… In baseball you only get three swings and you’re out. In rewriting, you get… “
Austrian, book quotes, playwright, poet, writer
“Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is…”
