#writing

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

— David Guterson

#college #creative #creative writing #decided #i

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

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

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#dining #dining room #happy #i #room

Painting and writing are solitary arts. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#painting #solitary #writing

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#created #i #illusion #literacy #reading

I was an angst-y journal writing kid. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#journal #kid #writing

I really, really like writing songs. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#like #really #songs #writing

Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before. ↗

— John Hawley

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