Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Editors Quotes

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Clever Quotes , Writing Quotes

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

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

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Writing Quotes , Action Quotes

Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Writing Quotes , Cutting Quotes

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Trying Quotes

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

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Rocks Quotes

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sweat Quotes

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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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Writing Quotes , Iraq 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

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Writing Quotes , Blood Quotes

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Writing Quotes

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Writing Quotes , Tired Quotes

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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

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

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