Adrienne Rich Quotes, Writing Quotes

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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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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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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