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J. B. Priestley Quotes about Writing

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Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

J. B. Priestley
Writing, Hair, Play

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

J. B. Priestley
Writing, Ideas, Instruments

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

J. B. Priestley
Pregnancy, Writing, Might
International Herald Tribune, January 3, 1978.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

J. B. Priestley
Writing, Odds, Challenges

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

J. B. Priestley
Writing, Would Be, Ifs

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

J. B. Priestley
Beautiful, Writing, Stills

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

J. B. Priestley
Book, Writing, Years

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