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America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sea 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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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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A writer wastes nothing.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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I really didn't think about song writing.

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