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  • Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Jaffee Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes
  • The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Writing Quotes , Effort 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Writing Quotes , Letters Quotes
  • But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Worry Quotes
  • Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes , Writing Quotes , Monsters Quotes