Alexander Pope Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

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Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple Quotes

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

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