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I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#classic #doing #everyone #going #i

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write. ↗

— Tim Gane

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In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant

The writer studies literature, not the world. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#studies #world #writer

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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