H. G. Wells Quotes, Passion Quotes, Writing Quotes

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

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Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known 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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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

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