Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Writing Quotes, Answers Quotes

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

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When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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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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The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

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I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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