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Letter "W" » Writing
«Writing is like carrying a fetus.»
«Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.»
«Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.»
«Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
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Luck,
Writing
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«Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.»
Author: Jessamyn West
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
complete, family, natural, occupation, savage, savaged, slightly, society, solitary, sustain, sustaining, The Natural, undertaking, undertook, uninterrupted, writer
«Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.»
«Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.»
«Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.»
«Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.»
Author: Paul Engle
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
body of water, dredge, grapple, grappled, grappling, hooks
«Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward»
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