Elfriede Jelinek quote: "I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK

It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it...
SHARON KAY PENMAN

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm goin...
KAREN ALLEN

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho...
WASHED OUT

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
JACKEE HARRY

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
MIRIAM TOEWS

After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy. He knows nothing about the discussi...
KNUT AHNLUND

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of question...
LAURA MARLING

I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical ex...
ALAN GARNER

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep,...
ANN PATCHETT

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
ALEX HALEY

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it
ALEX HALEY

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
CARLY RAE JEPSEN

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and out...
JULIA CAMERON

For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but ...
MARKUS ZUSAK

I would hope that I could reach people through my writing.
DEBRA LAFAVE

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children....
SONYA HARTNETT

A thought comes . . . it's a true feeling, a funny feeling. And I get to develop it. [Writing] is mo...
BILL COSBY

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
ALEX FLINN

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
TABITHA KING

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writ...
JENNIFER EGAN

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
KAPIL SIBAL

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the sam...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that com...
JOHN SCALZI

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
PETE HAMILL

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosph...
GAO XINGJIAN

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more...
CECELIA AHERN

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
BEBE REXHA

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly b...
ELIZABETH STROUT

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ...
JO NESBO

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine article...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence...
ETEL ADNAN

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it t...
JOHN DARNIELLE

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writin...
SYLVESTER STALLONE

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are th...
SANDRA CISNEROS

So I guess, in writing from my cell in the penitentiary, my question comes late. But what's the call...
MARK ROGERS

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
CASS MCCOMBS

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I bel...
JACKSON BROWNE

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
JOJO MOYES

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective...
RUTH RENDELL

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartes...
BEN FOUNTAIN

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
JANICE DICKINSON

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
ANTHONY DOERR

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
ROBERT PENN WARREN

I believe in my writing.
BARRY MANILOW

I would like to develop my writing skills and work on pulling my family together (to) create an albu...
BRIGETTE BRANNAN

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
PATTI SMITH

I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that ...
ISABEL ALLENDE

This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the academy will announce this y...
HORACE ENGDAHL

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
JONATHAN COE

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizin...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
LOIS LOWRY

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
CAROL BURNETT

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without e...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of pr...
DAVID NICHOLLS

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the note...
ESTELLE

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back...
KENDRICK LAMAR

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a ve...
WILLIAM JACKSON

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found...
MICHAEL POLLAN

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES

I have always liked it, it is still my favorite book. I do not like my writing, but I like this book...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest ...
JAMES BLUNT

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so sca...
JULIA GLASS

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestr...
AMITABH BACHCHAN

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can...
ELLEN PAGE

Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistake...
MONIQUE ROFFEY

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write i...
TAWNI O'DELL

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essenti...
J.K. ROWLING

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poe...
JIMMY CARTER

I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'...
JAMES ELLROY

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writin...
ANNE TYLER

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a stran...
THEODORA GOSS

I was very confident when it came down to my kick. I knew I could kick even a 25 [second split] for ...
BERNARD LAGAT

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style la...
JELLO BIAFRA

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writin...
ROBERT KLEIN

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I th...
CHESTER HIMES

I like to oversee what I do, so I have a hand in writing my songs. I also have people there to help ...
CIARA

Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it m...
QUENTIN R. BUFOGLE

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters deve...
DAVID BRIN

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i...
LANGSTON HUGHES

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is th...
BEBE WINANS

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But ...
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match ...
DAN HILL

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.
CHARLES KING

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially ...
SIDNEY LANIER

When you are a free and independent writer, without employer, without hours or deadlines, you have t...
IRVING WALLACE

I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about ...
CAITLIN MORAN

In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie...
DAVID SHIELDS

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing ...
JOAN BAEZ

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind ba...
J.K. ROWLING

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the begin...
OLIVER SIM

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

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I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.

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