Maya Angelou Quotes, Morning Quotes, Writing Quotes

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Mother Quotes , Writing Quotes

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

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Writing Quotes , Poetry Quotes

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Writing Quotes

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Running Quotes , Writing Quotes

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

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Tags : Aaron Brookner Quotes , Notebook Quotes , Writing Quotes

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Names Quotes

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Writing Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Writing Quotes , Unhappy Quotes

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Worry Quotes

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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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Writing Quotes , Mind Quotes

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

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Tags : Aja Monet Quotes , Writing Quotes , Spend Time Quotes

The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

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