Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Cost Quotes

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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

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Writing Quotes , Hands 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

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 first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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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 don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

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Tags : Alan Menken Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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Tags : Abel Ferrara Quotes , Writing Quotes , Rose Quotes

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Writing Quotes

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both.

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