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If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cousin Quotes , Writing Quotes

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Typewriters Quotes

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Travel Quotes , Writing Quotes

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Children Quotes , Writing Quotes

When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Looks Quotes

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Want Quotes

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Writing Quotes , Joy Quotes

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Skills Quotes

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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