T. S. Eliot Quotes, Writing Quotes, Bangs Quotes

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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