Horace Quotes, Mean Quotes, Writing Quotes

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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It took me 40 years to write my first book.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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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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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

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