Akira Kurosawa Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.

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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

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If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.

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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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