Adam Duritz Quotes, Writing Quotes, How You Feel Quotes

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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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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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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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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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

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Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

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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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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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