Abraham Pais Quotes, Morning Quotes, Writing Quotes

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Poetry Quotes

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

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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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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Writing Quotes , Way Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Interesting Quotes

Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

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