Alice Walker Quotes, Stars Quotes, Writing Quotes

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.

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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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

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