Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes

Live it up so you can write it down.

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We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Writing Quotes

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Children Quotes , Writing Quotes

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Writing 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.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Trust 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

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Writing Quotes

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

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Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Writing Quotes , How You Feel Quotes

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , People Quotes

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Writing Quotes , Study Quotes