Writing

Pliny the Elder Naturalist, Author

Writing

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read."

Writing Civilization Glory

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Plato Philosopher

Writing

". . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . ."

Writing Simple Libertarian

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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter

Writing

"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."

Writing Song Pleasure

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"There is no perfect time to write. There is only now."

Writing Perfect

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Barney Frank Politician

Writing

"The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out."

Writing Rights Gay

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Barrett Wendell Author

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"Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision."

Writing Revision Paragraph

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer

Writing

"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."

Thinking Writing Song

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor

Writing

"Some stories are true that never happened."

Writing Dream Love

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor

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"That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal."

Writing Beautiful Girl

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist

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"Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true."

Writing Memories Energy

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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist

Writing

"To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?"

Writing Book Fall

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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist

Writing

"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."

Writing Proportion Fling

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Emma Thompson Actress, Screenwriter, Author

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"I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel."

Writing Book Los Angeles

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Emma Thompson Actress, Screenwriter, Author

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"It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it."

Writing Years May

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is."

Writing Needs Fate

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece."

Writing Long Two

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Writing Long Good Luck

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Writing Stories Death

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs."

Writing Dog Sisterhood

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer."

Writing Book Father

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