Winston Churchill Quotes, Writing Quotes, Two Quotes

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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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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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

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We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

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I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

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