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Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

— Tobias Wolff

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anthony Burgess

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

— Jane Green

I don't know why I write what I write.

— Bret Easton Ellis

People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

— James Agee

✗Opposing Perspectives

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

— Susanna Moore

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

— Henry James