Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Long Quotes

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

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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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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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

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I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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