Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Writing Quotes

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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You can stroke people with words.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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