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“Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.”

“Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.”

Way Writing Years Looks Real Ends Easy Novel Editors Scare Scrap Dead Ends

Author:Charles Frazier

“Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.”

Writing Made Profession Hobbies

Author:Nelson DeMille

“Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.”

Writing Mean Walking Paper Eating Chapters Sheets

Author:Umberto Eco

“Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.”

Writing Lays Eggs Chickens

Author:John Updike

“Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.”

Knows Writing Easier Harder

Author:Tim O'Brien

“Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.”

Writing Realizing Differences Consuming

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.”

Thinking Writing Today Goal Make You Think

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Writing down the self in a journal holds many benefits for us, so find your unique pattern, discover your practice, and just do it -- write.”

Writing Quotes About Writing Writing Pattern

Author:Sandra Marinella

Source: The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.”

Ifs Should Writing Kind Hands Left Goes On Letting Go Notes Fingers Flesh Saving Preserves Slips Narcissism Journal Inner Life Eccentricity

Author:Anna Kamienska

“Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.”

World Writing Exercise Trade Best Exercise

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”

Way Writing Suffering My Own Existence My Way Ease

Author:Gao Xingjian

“Writing Ella turned me bi—oops, plot twist!” — Yvonne Padmos, Tv serie Ella in Marbella”

Writing Writing Process Lesbian Tv Series Plottwists

Author:Yvonne Padmos

“Writing enables us to leave our mark on the world and reach into the future”

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Author:Adiela Akoo

“Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.”

Writing Kind Hands Certain Language Results Silence Attitude Security Dangerous Concerned Stores Granted Proportion Quantity Sensitivity Insensitive

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.”

Writing Mind Landscape

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.”

Needs Giving Writing Has Beens Seems Reading Fun Information Obvious Readiness

Author:Vivian Gornick

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Writing Ideas Focus Teaching Structure Poetry Is Composition Essays Writing Poetry Writing Essays

Author:Aaron Belz

“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”

Writing Book Ends Waiting Empty Beach Dry Tides Shells

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.”

Writers On Writing Writers On Writing Books Writing

Author:Annie Dillard

Source: The Writing Life

“Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.”

Writing Together Nine Intense Zone Working Together Berlin Really Happy Skype Time Zones Writing Every Day

Author:Zach Anner

“Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.”

Way Writing May Running Engines Writing Every Day

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.”

Writing Firsts Littles Song Journey Notes Lifts

Author:Enya

“Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.”

Writing I Can Deals Fantasy Imagine Connections Let Me Florida Alligators

Author:Terry Brooks

“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”

Writing Feelings Talking Safe

Author:Hillary Frank

Source: I Can't Tell You

“Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.”

Writing Pain Poetry Beauty Therapy Ugliness Redeeming

Author:Nancy Springer

Source: The Oddling Prince

“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”

Writing Country Lost Business Fiction Writing Fiction

Author:Gore Vidal

“Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.”

Writing Humans Looks Lines Fiction Clear Respect Lifetime Thick Thread Persist Abiding Writing Fiction

Author:Eudora Welty

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.”

Ifs Way Writing Mind Fiction Good Way Writing Fiction

Author:Sheila Heti

“Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me, the reward for all the private time invested. And I love teaching to a fault; I have a hard time not giving away a lot of my own writing energy to my students.”

People Giving Writing Energy Love Is Teaching Students Hard Times Solitary

Author:Julia Glass

“Writing fiction is a respectable way of fibbing for a living—and enjoying it! -Anne George”

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Author:Anne George

Source: Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”

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Author:Hilma Wolitzer

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.”

Writing Character Language Fiction Lonely Occupation Solitary Writing Fiction

Author:Hilma Wolitzer

“Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.”

Writing Years Two Lasts Three Imagination Fiction Prose Three Years Writing Fiction

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”

Writing Effort Fiction Quality Killing Endless Capture Defeated Quality Of Life Writing Fiction Killing It

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.”

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Author:John Green

“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”

Way Writing Firsts Different Sometimes Process Half Fiction Novel Occasions Nonfiction Dread Writing Fiction Writing Nonfiction

Author:Joan Didion

“Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.”

Writing Fiction Irrational Writing Fiction

Author:Dale Peck

“Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.”

Ifs Writing Moving Can Do Fiction Quality Nice Movement You Can Do It Momentum Writing Fiction Keep It Moving

Author:John Updike

“Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.”

Writing Remember Fiction Happened Writing Fiction

Author:Siri Hustvedt

Source: A Plea for Eros: Essays

“Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.”

Writing Books Empathy Writer Creative Writing

Author:Melody Robinette

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

Writing Lying Fiction Greater Series Writing Fiction Weaving

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!”

Writing Fiction Best Things Writing Fiction

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong.”

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Author:Elif Batuman

“Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.”

World Writing Believe Mean Character Fiction Risk Writing Fiction

Author:Phil Klay

“Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.”

Writing Hours Fiction Down And Clock Immortal Take Me Writing Fiction

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”

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Author:Stephen King

Source: On Writing

“Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Enough Character Moving Emotion Novel Comfort Instant Prose Verses Solace Indirect

Author:Nick Laird

“Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.”

Writing Reading Fiction Practice Empathy Writing Fiction Reading Fiction

Author:Jennifer Haigh

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