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  • I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes
  • There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sorrow Quotes
  • Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Next Day Quotes