“Writing is the act of discovery.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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American writer 1948Related quotes

“When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.”
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“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
A Map of the World (1982), cited from Carol Homden, The Plays of David Hare (1995), p. 124.

“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Writing is not some quiet, closet act.”

“I have left Act I, for involution
And Act II. There, mired in complexity
I cannot write Act III.”
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