#writ

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it. ↗

— David Guterson

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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. ↗

— David Guterson

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I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

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I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer. ↗

— David Guterson

#i think #know #obligation #share #think

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. ↗

— David Guterson

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What sustains me is to be with my family and to write. ↗

— David Guterson

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When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. ↗

— David Guterson

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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. ↗

— David Guterson

#almost #basis #became #becoming #being

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#had #houston #i #me #meet

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become... ↗

— Joan Didion

#life