Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, War Quotes, Writing Quotes

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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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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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

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

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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