Alain de Botton Quotes, Writing Quotes

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

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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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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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