Writing

Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

Writing

"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."

Writing World Dance

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

Writing

"My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done."

Writing Years Done

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Waldo Salt Screenwriter, Producer

Writing

"I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it."

Thinking Writing Fifty

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

Writing

"There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list."

Writing Shopping Lists

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T. E. Lawrence Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer

Writing

"I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly."

Writing Moving Hours

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

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"Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible"

Writing Important Littles

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

Writing

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

Writing Editors Editing

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Tanith Lee Author

Writing

"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."

Writing Real Somewhere Else

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

Writing

"The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry."

Writing Art Divine

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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."

Writing Communication Identity

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter

Writing

"I always have to be writing."

Writing

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist

Writing

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."

Writing Matter Silence

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist

Writing

"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."

Writing Book Exercise

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Men Writing Years

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things."

Writing Running Eye

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"In good writing, words become one with things."

Writing Good Writing Writing Words

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Ramsey Lewis Jazz Pianist and Composer

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"I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real."

Believe Writing Real

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest

Writing

"Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others."

Writing Giving Wisdom

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Teju Cole Author, Photographer

Writing

"tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively."

Writing Views Focus

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Tennessee Williams Playwright

Writing

"I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease."

Believe Writing Play

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