Quotes and Sayings About Writing

Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?' afterward than before. Anyway, the force of somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
-- Zora Neale Hurston

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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
-- Zosia Mamet

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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
-- Zygmunt Bauman

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I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.
-- ZZ Packer

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Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.
-- ZZ Packer

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Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.
-- ZZ Packer

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