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Letter "W" » Writing
«Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
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«Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.»
Author: Dean Koontz
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
making love, novel, Pleasure and Pain, pulled, tooth
«Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.»
Author: Derrick Jensen
| About:
Writing
«Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Writing
| Keywords:
Cause and Effect, discovering, happenings, novel, one way, sequence, stumbling, The Sequence
«Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying»
«Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
| About:
Conversation,
Writing
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IS IS, managed, properly
«Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.»
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Loneliness,
Writing
| Keywords:
cut off, obsessions, Rest of the world, submerged, totally, write off
«Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.»
«Writing and learning and thinking are the same process»
«Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Writing
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