William Butler Yeats Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

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I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.

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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

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For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

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

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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