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Writing

«Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.»
«What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.»
«When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.»
«We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire»
«What a writer brings to any story is an attitude»
«What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.»
«When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher | About: Writing | Keywords: The Hunger, warmth, write of
«We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.»
«When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.»
Author: John Updike | About: Writing | Keywords: East, East of, Kansas, The East, vague
«When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.»