Writing

Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist

Writing

"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."

Thinking Believe Writing

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Ishmael Reed Writer

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"Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing."

Writing Justice Diversity

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Italo Calvino Writer

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"Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable."

Writing Inspiration Expression

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Gene Wolfe Author

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"My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver."

Thinking Writing Army

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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian

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"With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain or we need whatever it was."

Writing House Zero

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Geoff Dyer Author

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"In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss."

Writing Perfect Profound

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Geoff Dyer Author

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"I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience."

People Writing Mind

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer

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"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work."

Writing Use Criticism

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Margaret Forster Author

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"I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life."

Writing Morning Lovely

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Jakob Dylan Musician

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"I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit."

Writing Looks Song

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life."

Writing Together Crumbling

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous."

Writing Able Letters

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come."

Writing Stories Waiting

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves."

Writing Want Mature

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly."

Writing Birthday Remembers Everything

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."

Writing Important Quality

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write."

Thinking Writing Artist

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing."

Men Writing Bars

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing."

Writing Trying War

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Francoise Sagan Author

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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."

Writing Character Finding The One

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