Horace Quotes, Writing Quotes, Apology Quotes

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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

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Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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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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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

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The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Writing Quotes , Should Have Quotes

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.

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