Lewis Carroll Quotes, Writing Quotes, Loss Quotes

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

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In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

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I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.

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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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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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Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wisdom 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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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