Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")

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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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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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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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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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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

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