"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Writing, Immortality, Truth, Future, Power

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Writing, Word, Power, Expression

"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

Writing, Secrets, Observation, Insight

"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Writing, Creativity, Youth, Legacy

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

Mark Twain, American Author

Writing, Time, Will

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Wisdom, Power, Truth, Inspirational

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Literature, Scotland, Culture

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

George Stephen, Canadian Businessman

Writing, Years

"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."

Daphne du Maurier, English Novelist

Writing, First

"Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone."

bell hooks, American Critic

Writing, Word, Love, Poetry, Childhood

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"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

Soul

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

Time

"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

Relationship

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

Friendship

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

Nation

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."

Explore more quotes by Edna O'Brien

"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."

"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."

"Writing is like carrying a fetus."