Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Know How Quotes

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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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's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

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