Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Running Quotes, Writing Quotes

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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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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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

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

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

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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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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