F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Writing Quotes, Individual Quotes

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking 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.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

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A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Writing Quotes , Silence Quotes

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

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