Alan Watts Quotes, Writing Quotes, Study Quotes

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

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Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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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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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

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