Alan Perlis Quotes, Writing Quotes

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

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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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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Writing Quotes , Lust Quotes

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Writing Quotes , Lines Quotes

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.

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