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“My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.”

Writing Seems Literature Numbers Produce Pages

“My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the protagonist of an epic novel, with the outcome predetermined and chapter after chapter of edifying, traumatic, and exhilarating events to be suffered through. Since the end is known in advance, one must try to experience as much as possible in the brief time allotted. Writing is a way of ensuring that you pay enough attention along the way to understand what you see.”

Ifs Way Should Writing Trying Years Ends Enough Pay Attention Known Novel Events College Conviction Outcomes Chapters Epic Exhilarating Protagonists Predetermined Year One College Years

Author:Jeffrey Tayler

“My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because I know so much of the story that I want to tell and I feel so far away from the end. Actually feels a hundred years away, and every hour I'm not working is another hour away from finishing.”

Writing Done Goal Hours Far Away Desperation

Author:Steve Toltz

“My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.”

Writing Prayer Morning Habit Office Coffee Get Up Cups Every Morning Static Coffee Cup

Author:Mitch Albom

“My writing has a lot of surprising twists.”

Writing Surprising Twists

Author:Brent Weeks

“My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.”

People Writing Life Is Who I Am Life Is Like

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.”

Ifs Writing I Can Found Process Linear

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.”

Writing Important No Money Slim

Author:Kate Zambreno

“My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.”

Writing Mets Derision Dismissal

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.”

Writing Ends Strong Fiction Narrative Plot Very Strong Twists

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.”

Writing Self Character Pain Bits Gone Conscious Nerves Self Conscious

Author:Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“My writing has no “use by” date; it was for yesterday, it is for today and it will be for tomorrow – for everyone.”

Writing Wisdom Inspiration Today Peace Tomorrow Universal Yesterday Help Always

Author:Debasish Mridha

“My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.”

People Way Writing Trying Littles Stories Bits Process Talking Brother Offers Little Bit Folks Tales Documents Evoke People Talking Grimm Brothers Grimm

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.”

Writing Book Support Habit Research Corners Curls

Author:Lynn Abbey

“My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”

Writing Good Writing

Author:Dick Schaap

“My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.”

Writing Firsts Three Reading Literature Subjects Travel Elements Reflection Thirds Combination Exploration Funny Travel Tourists Tourism Reading Literature

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.”

Writing Possibility Lenses

Author:Charles Bartlett Johnson

“My writing is a picture of the mind moving.”

Writing Mind Moving

Author:Philip Whalen

“My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.”

Writing Process Writing Process Filling Rewriting Filling In

Author:Joan Didion

“My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.”

Writing Journey Reader Discovery Who I Am Going Out Protagonists

Author:Ted Dekker

“My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.”

Ifs Writing Interest Answers Results Views Return Details Ridiculous Hypothesis Partisans

Author:Zeno of Elea

“My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.”

Writing Happens Life Is Whatever Happens

Author:Tucker Max

“My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.”

Writing Growing Up Growing Crazy Consistently Collages

Author:Michael Giacchino

“My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.”

Writing Mother Speak Black Wife Slavery Who I Am African American Legacy Etc Black Women

Author:Michelle Singletary

“My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.”

Thinking Way Writing Years Different Enough Written Subjects Deeper Sophisticated

Author:Neil Diamond

“My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.”

Writing Done Waiting Fields Towns Lunch Yards Truck Noon Railroads

Author:Eric Hoffer

“My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.”

Writing Important Enjoy Kicks

Author:Jim Lehrer

“My writing is full of lives I might have led.”

Writing Might

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“My writing is how I maintain.”

Writing

Author:Mark Salzman

Source: True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

“My writing is hybrid because it is human — and the human is never just one thing. It is poetry, it is pain, it is visceral confession, reflection, questioning, philosophy, and prayer — all intertwined…”

Human Experience Poetic Prose Emotional Truth Philosophical Reflections Confessional Writing Spiritual Writing Therapeutic Writing Hybrid Writing Soulful Literature Visceral Memoir

Author:Phoenix Moon

“My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.”

Writing Process Inspired

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“My writing is not linear — it is a hybrid memoir: fragments of a soul, stitched together with poetry, confession, and truth.”

Poetic Prose Emotional Journey Confessional Writing Soulful Reflections Faith And Truth Hybrid Memoir Literary Memoir Fragments Of The Soul Healing Through Words Therapeutic Memoir

Author:Phoenix Moon

“My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.”

Writing Boxing

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.”

Way Writing Stories Opportunity Too Much Witness Affected Personal Life Bearing Witness

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.”

Writing Problem Moving Certain Cases Progress Written Moving Forward

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.”

Way Writing Kids School Used Song New York Hung Intuitive Jersey New Jersey

Author:Donald Fagen

“My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.”

Writing Littles Atheism

Author:Michael Pollan

“My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.”

Writing

Author:John Searles

“My writing is the only place where I can just be me and be free. Its my comfort space I could write all day Write how I feel Write how you feel Write a story At the end its all me So if you want to know, please don't Don't try to have a conversation with me Don't try to know me by looking at me Don't try to know me by having a few encounters If you really want to know who Kabashe is Just read my writings :)”

Life Inspirational Attitude Quotes About Life

Author:Kabashe Pillay

“My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.”

Thinking Writing Littles Whole Language Nations Class Middle Lovely Video Indian Middle Class Pastime

Author:Arundhati Roy

“My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.”

Thinking Writing Mother Essentials Dirt Crawling Twigs

Author:Alice Walker

“My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Writing Play Moments Character Seems Pain Issues Emotional Particular Circumstances Down And Impact Crafts Release Backwards Bothered Moments In Time

Author:Paula Vogel

“My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.”

Writing Littles Ends Dark Space Careers Accidents Tiny Crafts Hobbies

Author:Gary Lutz

“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.”

Writing Happiness Poetry Artist Poet Author Writer Create Writing Poetry On Writing The Glass Child Charlotte Eriksson Feel Complete

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.”

Way Writing Trying Kind Emotion Wise Air Pages Commit Rhythm Songwriting Intimidating Intriguing Connotation

Author:Ani DiFranco

“My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.”

Knows Writing Book Done Stories Might Happens Conscious

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write fiction effectively for about three or at the most four hours. No big mysteries, I just sit down and try to advance the cause a little bit every day.”

Writing Trying Hours Simple Morning Mystery Writing Life

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.”

Writing Hands Solitude Normal Paper Method Huts

Author:Sally Potter

“My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.”

Ifs Writing Wells Mother Reader Models Simplicity Clarity Curious Thoughtful Irrelevant Superfluous

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.”

Writing Trying Hands Fiction Teacher Critics Scholar Headings

Author:George Steiner

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