Maya Angelou Quotes, Brother Quotes, Writing Quotes

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Life Quotes , Writing Quotes

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes

The way to write well is to live intensely.

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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

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Tags : Alan Licht Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ideas Quotes

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

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

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Tags : Ahmet Ertegun Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

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Tags : A. N. Wilson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Writing Quotes

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Tired Quotes

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

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Women Quotes , Writing Quotes

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Writing Quotes

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Writing Quotes , History Quotes

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Writing Quotes , Trying Quotes