Alan Garner Quotes, Writing Quotes

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Tired Quotes

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Class Quotes

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Writing Quotes

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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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing 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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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ravens Quotes

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Writing Quotes

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

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Tags : Alan Cheuse Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Writing Quotes , Cutting Quotes

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Who I Am Quotes

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Writing Quotes , Yarn Quotes

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Writing Quotes , Artist Quotes

An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Writing Quotes

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Writing Quotes

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

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Tags : Akiva Goldsman Quotes , Moving Quotes , Writing Quotes

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Writing Quotes , Signatures Quotes