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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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I really didn't think about song writing.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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

A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Littles Quotes

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Plain Language Quotes

I was able to study 50 years of leadership theory and practicum in my master's program at Seton Hall, and it has provided the backbone of the knowledge we use every day. My undergraduate work was in journalism, and my early work as a newspaper reporter taught me how to research, write, and rewrite.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Voice Quotes

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

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With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

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