Winston Churchill Quotes, Writing Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

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If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.

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For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

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