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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing 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

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.

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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Meaning Of Life Quotes