Dennis Lehane Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

  Dennis Lehane

  Jobs, Writing, Focus

• I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Seems

• I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Dark, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. August 1999.

• I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Bars, Use

• It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, People, Want

  "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

• It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Simple, Secret

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