Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Writing Quotes

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Good Day Quotes

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Running Quotes , Writing Quotes

What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sides Quotes

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Writing Quotes , Names Quotes

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Writing Quotes

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Writing Quotes , Aunt Quotes

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

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