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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"When you can't create you can work"

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

Writing Important Communication

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

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"You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer."

Writing Voice Millions

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

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"Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery."

Writing Nature Discovery

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

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"After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in."

Writing Talking Typewriters

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

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"He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment."

Writing Trying Viruses

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

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"No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in."

Men Writing Paper

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

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"The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system."

Writing May Poison

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician

Writing

"Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice"

Writing Ideas Ravens

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician

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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"

Writing Letters Trials

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Lewis Thomas Physician, Author

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"It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer."

Writing Moving Feelings

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist

Writing

"The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it."

Believe Writing Lying

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James Rollins Author, Veterinarian

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"I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office."

Writing Book Animal

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James Rollins Author, Veterinarian

Writing

"The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book."

Writing Book Birthday

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter

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"Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way."

Writing Song Rain

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor

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"I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment."

Writing Art Fun

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator

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"Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly."

Writing Wise Doors

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

Writing

"Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer."

Thinking Writing Book

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."

Men Writing Lying

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"I am one thing, my writings are another."

Writing One Thing

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