Theodore Kaczynski Quotes, Writing Quotes, People Quotes

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

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What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

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

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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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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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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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Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

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