Oscar Wilde Quotes, Morning Quotes, Writing Quotes

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Mean Quotes

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

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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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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Optimistic Quotes , Writing Quotes

It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

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