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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that? Picture Quote #1

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit? Picture Quote #1

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom Picture Quote #1

I don’t think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be Picture Quote #1

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity Picture Quote #1

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don’t work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don’t, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress Picture Quote #1

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We’ve backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years Picture Quote #1

I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It’s great if you can write things down Picture Quote #1

I write because I’m unhappy. I write because it’s a way of fighting unhappiness Picture Quote #1

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication Picture Quote #1

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words Picture Quote #1

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can’t attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn’t so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it Picture Quote #1

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I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles Picture Quote #1

It’s not as if I’m trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that Picture Quote #1

There’s no posterity to write for. I’m writing now for mutated arthropods Picture Quote #1

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess Picture Quote #1

When you’re a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don’t see any similarities Picture Quote #1

Write a book you’d like to read. If you wouldn’t read it, why would anybody else? Don’t write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book’s ready Picture Quote #1

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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak Picture Quote #1

Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don’t write down an elaborate plan. It’s really done by feel. It’s one area of my writing that I think I’ve got surer at as I’ve evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic Picture Quote #1

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit Picture Quote #1

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be Picture Quote #1

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear Picture Quote #1

So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded to deep and unknown forces. But then really just have people going to the store and fixing the sink and going through the normal things of looking for love and getting up in the morning. Because that’s how we live Picture Quote #1

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The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis Picture Quote #1

It’s a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it Picture Quote #1

I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men’s bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me Picture Quote #1

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure Picture Quote #1

I don’t write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it’s the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again Picture Quote #1

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn’t write. It’s a process of discovery Picture Quote #1

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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that? (Write Quotes) Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit? (Write Quotes) Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom (Write Quotes) I don’t think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be (Write Quotes) To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity (Write Quotes) Great steps in human progress are made by things that don’t work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don’t, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress (Write Quotes) We’ve backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years (Write Quotes) I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It’s great if you can write things down (Write Quotes) I write because I’m unhappy. I write because it’s a way of fighting unhappiness (Write Quotes) You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication (Write Quotes) You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words (Write Quotes) What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can’t attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn’t so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it (Write Quotes) I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles (Write Quotes) It’s not as if I’m trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that (Write Quotes) There’s no posterity to write for. I’m writing now for mutated arthropods (Write Quotes) I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess (Write Quotes) When you’re a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don’t see any similarities (Write Quotes) Write a book you’d like to read. If you wouldn’t read it, why would anybody else? Don’t write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book’s ready (Write Quotes) Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak (Write Quotes) Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don’t write down an elaborate plan. It’s really done by feel. It’s one area of my writing that I think I’ve got surer at as I’ve evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic (Write Quotes) Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit (Write Quotes) It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be (Write Quotes) You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear (Write Quotes) So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded to deep and unknown forces. But then really just have people going to the store and fixing the sink and going through the normal things of looking for love and getting up in the morning. Because that’s how we live (Write Quotes) The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis (Write Quotes) It’s a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it (Write Quotes) I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men’s bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me (Write Quotes) I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure (Write Quotes) I don’t write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it’s the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again (Write Quotes) As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn’t write. It’s a process of discovery (Write Quotes)

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