Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Writing Quotes, Mind Quotes

The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

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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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To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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

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Worry destroys the ability to write.

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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

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

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

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I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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