Writing

August Wilson Playwright, Screenwriter

Writing

"The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is."

Writing Editing Eloquent

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist

Writing

"The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always."

Writing Fun Attitude

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet

Writing

"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."

Thinking Writing Long

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Octavia Butler Author, Novelist

Writing

"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow."

People Writing Attitude

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Naguib Mahfouz Novelist

Writing

"Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks."

Thinking Men Writing

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H. G. Wells Writer

Writing

"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!"

Thinking Writing One Day

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker

Writing

"Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."

Writing Powerful Goal

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Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist

Writing

"The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing."

Writing Mean Ambition

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter

Writing

"Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof."

Writing Rap Curves

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Frederick The Great King

Writing

"Our work is to present things that are as they are."

Writing Prussia

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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer

Writing

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."

Writing Trying Tasks

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Julio Cortazar Novelist, Short Story Writer

Writing

"When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes."

Writing Want Ifs

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Mary Oliver Poet

Writing

"He is exactly the poem I wanted to write."

Writing Wanted

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Milan Kundera Writer

Writing

"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

Writing

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist

Writing

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."

Writing Angel Memorable

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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter

Writing

"It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours."

People Writing Rip

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

Thinking Writing Literature

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

Writing

"Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago."

Writing Long Ago Ink

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

Writing

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

Writing Mind Poetry

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

Writing Kids Inspirational Life

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