Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Writing Quotes, Opposites Quotes

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Creativity Quotes

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

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Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

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If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Wall Quotes , Writing Quotes

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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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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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

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