Adrienne Rich Quotes, Writing Quotes, White Quotes

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

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O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

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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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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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Worry destroys the ability to write.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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