H. G. Wells Quotes, Writing Quotes, Ambition Quotes

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

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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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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

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