A. N. Wilson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Writing Quotes

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes

Writing to offer a piece of information or a connection is a great way to demonstrate that you're looking out for the other person. Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you're looking out for someone, the more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

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People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

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