"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

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George Stephen, Canadian Businessman

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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."

Jack Prelutsky, American Poet

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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."

Peter Matthiessen, American Writer

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"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

Marcel Duchamp, French Artist

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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

C. Day Lewis, English Poet

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"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."

Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist

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"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."

James Lee Burke, American Author

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"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

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"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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"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."

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

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"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?'"

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

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"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."

"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."

"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."

"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."

"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."

"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

Explore more quotes by Edna O'Brien

"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."

"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."

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

"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?'"

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

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

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

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

"Writing is like carrying a fetus."