Agnes Repplier Quotes, Believe Quotes, Writing Quotes

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

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Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

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No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

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I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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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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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.

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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

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