Alan Perlis Quotes, Writing Quotes, Learning Quotes

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Preparation Quotes

I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

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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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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Funny Quotes , Writing Quotes

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

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For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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Tags : Adam Croasdell Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Moving Quotes , Writing Quotes

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

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Tags : Aaron Belz Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Writing Quotes

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Use Quotes

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Women Quotes , Writing Quotes

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes