Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wall Quotes, Writing Quotes

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Together Quotes

Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ears Quotes

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Writing Quotes , Lust Quotes

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Real Quotes , Writing Quotes

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

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Tags : A. M. Rosenthal Quotes , Writing Quotes , Swagger Quotes

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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