Robert Frost Quotes, Writing Quotes, Talking Quotes

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

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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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If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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