Writing

Moliere Playwright, Actor

Writing

"That must be fine, for I don't understand a word."

Writing Fine

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun

Writing

"The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve."

Writing Heart Eye

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist

Writing

"We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted."

Writing Opportunity Culture

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist

Writing

"All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies."

Writing Lying Shameless

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Ludwig van Beethoven Composer, Pianist

Writing

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

Writing Music Thank God

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Lynn Abbey Author

Writing

"I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath."

Thinking Writing Literature

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Lucinda Williams Singer-songwriter

Writing

"First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode."

Writing Coffee Jeans

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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat

Writing

"On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."

Writing Earth Humanity

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"The historian records, but the novelist creates."

Writing Records Novelists

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

Writing

"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."

Writing Jobs Wonderful

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

Writing

"I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself."

Writing

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Barack Obama Politician

Writing

"Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author."

Writing Stories Inspirational Life

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Barack Obama Politician

Writing

"We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will."

Writing America Strength

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Patti Smith Musician

Writing

"I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist."

Writing Artist Drawing

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Patti Smith Musician

Writing

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."

Writing Pursuit Awake

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Patti Smith Musician

Writing

"I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf."

Writing Book Shelves

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Patti Smith Musician

Writing

"Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate."

Writing Strong Night

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

Writing

"I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name."

Writing Pain Names

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Philip Roth Novelist

Writing

"A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way."

Writing Book Adventure

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Philip Roth Novelist

Writing

"Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it."

Writing Judging

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