Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Censorship Quotes

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Night Quotes

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

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I started writing when I was about thirteen.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Needs Quotes

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.

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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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