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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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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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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Trying Quotes

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

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Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Views Quotes

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

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Tags : A. N. Wilson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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

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I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

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