Oscar Wilde Quotes, Writing Quotes, Heart Quotes

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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