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I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

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Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

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When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

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

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You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

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

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

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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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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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