A. P. Herbert Quotes, Writing Quotes, Tonight Quotes

For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

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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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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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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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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Different Quotes

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Children Quotes , Writing Quotes

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fighting Quotes

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes

Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

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Tags : Al Jaffee Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Writing Quotes , Criticism Quotes

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Dream Quotes , Writing Quotes

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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