Wallace Stegner Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Hard writing makes easy reading.

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  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.158, Modern Library

• We write to make sense of it all.

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  Writing, Make Sense

• Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

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  Writing, Practice, Skills

• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

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  Teaching, Writing, Thinking

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.31, Penguin

• It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

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  Writing, Peculiar, Fiction

• A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

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  Writing, Heart, Cutting

• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

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  Father, Writing, Self

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

• Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

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  Writing, Materials, Ifs

  Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.32, Penguin

• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

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  Writing, Ambition, School

  "On Teaching and Writing Fiction".

• We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

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  Writing, Want, Knows

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