Alice Walker Quotes, Writing Quotes, Kind Quotes

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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

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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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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

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When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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