Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Plato Quotes, Writing Quotes

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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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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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Writing is an adventure.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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The word impossible is not French.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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