George W. Bush Quotes, Writing Quotes, Live In The Moment Quotes

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

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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 when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

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