Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Reality Quotes

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

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In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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