William Blake Quotes, Plato Quotes, Writing Quotes

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Generations Quotes

Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

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Tags : A.L. Kennedy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Remember You Quotes

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Writing Quotes , Reality Quotes

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Moving Quotes , Writing Quotes

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

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Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Writing Quotes , Mind Quotes

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Writing Quotes , Bakers Quotes

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sight Quotes

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Trying Quotes

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

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Tags : Aaron Belz Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Writing Quotes

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fun Quotes , Writing Quotes

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Writing Quotes

I do not know what I think until I write it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

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