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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Data Quotes

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

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