#writing

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know? ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#because #chaos #clarity #distance #emotional

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #living #only #worth #worth living

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #i can #long #manuscript #place

Every writer I know has trouble writing. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#i #know #trouble #writer #writing

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#costs #dramatic #failure #feel #form

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#down #nothing #sit #typewriter #writing

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#character #characters #create #living #novel

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. ↗

— Anita Hill

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#concept #could #history #humanity #without