Franz Kafka Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Writing Quotes

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

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My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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