Oscar Wilde Quotes, Writing Quotes, Artist Quotes

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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