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  • To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Passion Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Morris Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes
  • One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes
  • I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Religious Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.
  • 5 years ago



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