Maya Angelou Quotes, Writing Quotes, Stories Quotes

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

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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 am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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I really didn't think about song writing.

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It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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