#writing

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing. ↗

— Iris Dement

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Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#inspiring #painting #singing #writing #beauty

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. ↗

— Anita Desai

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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#comes #just #know #numbers #out

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

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. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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