Charles Dickens Quotes, Writing Quotes, Fire Quotes

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Work Quotes , Writing Quotes

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Giving Quotes

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

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The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Writing Quotes

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

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I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.

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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Writing Quotes , Poetry Quotes

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Writing Quotes , Talent Quotes

My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

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I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

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Tags : Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes , Writing Quotes , Use Quotes

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

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

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Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

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