Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Writing Quotes

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

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

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Writing Quotes , Zest Quotes

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

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The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Littles Quotes

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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Tags : Ada Leverson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Letters Quotes

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Drama Quotes , Writing Quotes

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Example Quotes

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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I probably write a poem every 50 years.

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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

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Writing Quotes , Creative Quotes

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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