Victor Hugo Quotes, Writing Quotes, Play Quotes

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

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I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

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Tags : Alan Palomo Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Writing Quotes , Silence Quotes

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Writing Quotes , Voice Quotes

Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Writing Quotes

A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

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I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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Tags : A.L. Kennedy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

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