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I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

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Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

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Bad spellers of the world untie!

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

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When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

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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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