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  • The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Country Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Style Quotes
  • Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sorrow Quotes
  • The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Dale Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Writing Quotes , Opportunity Quotes
  • 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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes , Writing Quotes , Monsters Quotes