Bodhidharma Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Writing Quotes

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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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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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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