Al Barr Quotes, Song Quotes, Writing Quotes

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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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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Who I Am Quotes

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Writing Quotes , Humanity Quotes

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Drama Quotes , Writing Quotes

Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

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Tags : Alan Weisman Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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Tags : A. E. Hotchner Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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Tags : Al Madrigal Quotes , Writing Quotes , Hands Quotes

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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Writing Quotes , Odds Quotes

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Drug Quotes

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Way Quotes

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Writing Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Lying Quotes , Writing Quotes