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Writerly Quotes

This page before you contains our favorite inspirational writerly quotes.

Concerning the unmistakable James Joyce. If you've ever tried James Joyce, you'll like this. ::shakes out scroll:: Quote:

"Why don't you write books people can read?"

Nora Joyce, to her husband James

Too cute, huh? ;o)

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And now, from the inimitable Virginia Woolf!

On writer's block:
"Yesterday morning, I was in despair... I couldn't screw a word from me; and at last dropped my head in my hands: dipped my pen in ink and wrote these words, as if automatically, on a clean sheet: Orlando, a Biography. No sooner had I done this than my body was flooded with rapture and my brain with ideas..."

Virginia Woolf, letter, October 9, 1927,

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On creation in the 1920s?
"... So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words."

~Virginia Woolf, 1926?


And more from our favorite...
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
~Virginia Woolf


And from another fine Englishman: Winston Churchill:
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
~Winston Churchill

And one from *the* science fiction writer of the 20th century:
"Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.
~Isaac Asimov

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