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Writing Quotes - Page 429

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

"Maxine Hong Kingston embarks on new life chapter" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. January 23, 2011.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics