Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Voice Quotes

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. It's financial of course, but it's also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be. So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.

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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

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Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

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

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

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For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Writing Quotes

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

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