Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Writing Quotes

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

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The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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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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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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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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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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