Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Writing Quotes, Stories Quotes

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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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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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

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