Akira Kurosawa Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Writing Quotes , Effort Quotes

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Writing Quotes , Ink Quotes

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.

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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Writing Quotes , Learning Quotes

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Trust 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

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

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Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Writing Quotes , Life Is Good Quotes

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fighting Quotes

But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Dream Quotes , Writing Quotes

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Writing Quotes

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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