H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

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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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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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