John Edgar Wideman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Writing, Scary, Important

  John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Basketball, Book, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with." But another part of me knows that when I'm past the stage of writing, the book is gonna have good things about it, bad things about it - probably more bad than good. I just know that. That's who I am.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Writing, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Husband, Father, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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