Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Work Quotes, Writing Quotes

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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I started writing when I was about thirteen.

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A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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