Lewis Carroll Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Poet 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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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple 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

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Writing Quotes , Names Quotes

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Writing Quotes , Our Words Quotes

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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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Passion Quotes , Writing Quotes

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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