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Writing

«One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.»
«People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I haven?t the faintest idea. That?s why you?re writing the book, it seems to me, to find out. To me, it?s a journey. It?s an adventure. It?s traveling in a country you?ve never been in and everything is going to be new, and because of that, vivid. And don?t make up your mind too soon. Let it be an experience.»
«Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.»
Author: Gao Xingjian | About: Writing | Keywords: humans, minded, observing, starting, yields
«Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.»
«No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one»
«Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.»
Author: Steven Saylor (Writer) | About: Writing
«Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time I did it, I can't remember even taking any notice of it.»
Author: George Harrison | About: Writing | Keywords: I did it, No 1, reissue, reissued, weeks
«People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Celebrity, Writers, Writing
«Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review»
«Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Passion, Writing | Keywords: intervals