Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, People Quotes

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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Bad spellers of the world untie!

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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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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

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple Quotes