Aaron Zigman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

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If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Editors Quotes

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Real Quotes , Writing Quotes

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars 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

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Writing Quotes , Age Quotes

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Wish Quotes

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Drug Quotes

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Literature Quotes

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

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Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Writing Quotes , Tree Quotes

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Work Quotes , Writing Quotes

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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Tags : Alan Garner Quotes , Writing Quotes

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Writing Quotes , Learning Quotes

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

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