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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

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I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sight Quotes

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Hatred Quotes

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Writing Quotes

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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