Paulo Coelho Quotes, Fun Quotes, Writing Quotes

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Important Quotes

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Criticism Quotes

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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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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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Passion Quotes , Writing Quotes

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Writing Quotes

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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