Alan Lightman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Magic Realism Quotes

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Memories Quotes , Writing Quotes

Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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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Tags : Achmat Dangor Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Quality Quotes

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

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Tags : Adam Pascal Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Writing Quotes

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

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

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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Tags : Al Madrigal Quotes , Writing Quotes , Hands Quotes

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Writing Quotes , Suspense Quotes

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

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Tags : Adam Rich Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Writing Quotes

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Kings Quotes , Writing Quotes

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Water Quotes

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

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