Anton Chekhov Quotes, Writing Quotes, Important Quotes

Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Writing Quotes , Expression Quotes

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

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Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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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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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Writing Quotes , Style Quotes

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Writing Quotes , Apology Quotes

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

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