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  • Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love. -- Edward Hoagland
  • My true nature, I believe, is writing. -- Richard LaGravenese
  • I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing. -- Jim Rash
  • Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. -- Andre Breton
  • Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me. -- Damon Galgut
  • Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head. -- William Landay
  • Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it. -- Victoria Gotti
  • Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own. -- D. B. Weiss
  • I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing. -- Chang-Rae Lee
  • It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it. -- Rachel Cusk
  • I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready. -- Joseph Kanon
  • Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it. -- Jeff Tweedy
  • Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. -- Caroline Kennedy
  • What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about. -- Chris Crutcher
  • The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. -- Paul de Man
  • In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature. -- Bjork
  • After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest. -- Henrik Pontoppidan
  • My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second. -- Jane Yolen
  • I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process. -- Candace Bushnell
  • If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included. -- Lorrie Moore
  • I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it. -- Per Petterson
  • Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. -- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
  • I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. -- Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. -- Dick Guindon
  • I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. -- Edwidge Danticat
  • When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. -- Lisel Mueller
  • The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short. -- Steve Dildarian
  • Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. -- John Mason Brown
  • For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. -- Danny Elfman
  • The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or placeĆ¢??you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. -- Bernard Malamud
  • We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory. -- Eugene Ionesco
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