Alan Thicke Quotes, Writing Quotes, Character Quotes

The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play 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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I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

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I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Reality Quotes

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Writing is an adventure.

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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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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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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Journey Quotes

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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