Anna Quindlen Quotes About Writing

• Leía y caminaba kilómetros por la noche a lo largo de la playa, escribiendo malos versos en blanco y buscando sin cesar a alguien maravilloso que saliera de la oscuridad y cambiara mi vida. Nunca se me pasó por la cabeza que esa persona pudiera ser yo.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Beach, Ocean

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.11, Ballantine Books

• Todas las historias ya han sido contadas. Una vez que se han leído Anna Karenina, Bleak House, El ruido y la furia, Matar a un ruiseñor y Una arruga en el tiempo, se comprende que en realidad no hay razón para volver a escribir otra novela. Salvo que cada escritor aporta, si se lo permite, algo que nadie más ha tenido en la historia de los tiempos.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Wrinkles

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.36, Random House

• Not writing at all leads to nothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Escribir

• Para mí, el principio y el final nunca son realmente el viaje del descubrimiento. Es el medio el que sigue siendo un enigma hasta bien entrada la escritura. Así es la vida la mayor parte del tiempo, ¿no? Sabes dónde estás y dónde esperas acabar. Lo difícil es llegar.

  Anna Quindlen

  Escritura, viaje, descubrimiento

• We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.

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  Children, Writing, Who I Am

• People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

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  Block, Writing, People

  Essay, www.amazon.com.

• Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

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  Summer, Distance, Lying

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.25, Random House

• I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

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  Writing, Sunday, Brain

  "Anna Quindlen: Over 50, And Having 'Plenty Of Cake'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kcur.org. April 24, 2012.

• Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Mean, People

• I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

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  Family, Writing, Thinking

• You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Suits, Certain

  Fuente: urbanmoms.ca

• I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

• La era de la tecnología ha reavivado el uso de la escritura y ha proporcionado cada vez más razones para su solaz espiritual. Al fin y al cabo, los correos electrónicos son cartas más duraderas que las llamadas telefónicas, aunque muchas de ellas sean superficiales.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Writing, Technology

• Es mucho más fácil escribir un currículum que elaborar un espíritu.

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  Writing, Crafts, Spirit

  Anna Quindlen (2002). "Guía breve para una vida feliz", Arrow/Children's (una división del grupo Random House).

• I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

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  Stars, Hate, Writing

  Fuente: urbanmoms.ca

• The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, House, Towns

• Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.

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  Writing, Stories, Retrospect

• My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

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  Writing, Trying, Habit

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.315, Random House

• I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

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  Escribir

• When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, Writing, Night

• El Nuevo Testamento ha influido mucho en mi forma de escribir y de vivir.

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  Powerful, Writing, Living My Life

• I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.

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  Strong, Book, Writing

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

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  Diversión, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Creo que los libros en los que la gente es realmente feliz y las cosas van bien son probablemente las novelas más difíciles de escribir, y hay muy pocas.

  Anna Quindlen

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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