Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Cheating Quotes, Writing Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Running Quotes , Writing Quotes

Writing a poem is discovering.

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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Writing Quotes , Leisure Quotes

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

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Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Writing Quotes , Years Quotes

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sea Quotes

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

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Tags : Alan Palomo Quotes , Writing Quotes , Inspire Quotes

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Writing Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

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