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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Flannery O'Connor

Writer

Writing

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Edna O'Brien

Writing

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

Culture

Writing

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.