Writing

D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet

Writing

"I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze."

Writing Spiteful Sneezing

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

Writing

"When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh."

Writing Mean Disease And Death

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist

Writing

"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."

Writing Mind Focus

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist

Writing

"The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always."

Writing Embarrassing Best Work

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright

Writing

"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."

Writing Two Imagination

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Ralph Ellison Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?"

Writing Ideas Dream

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

Writing

"A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer."

Writing Teacher Three

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist

Writing

"I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now."

Writing Block Students

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Robert Smith Musician

Writing

"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."

Writing Faces Smile

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Roger Miller Country Music Singer

Writing

"The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song."

Writing Mind Song

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Russell Wilson American Football Player

Writing

"I’ll write down little lines, I always say, 'K.T.N.,' and I say that to my receivers and running backs and that means 'keep taking notes.' That keeps me alert. That keeps me going. That keeps my drive there, even when you’re taking notes on something that you’ve already taken notes on a million times - keep taking notes."

Writing Running Taken

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Kadir Nelson Illustrator

Writing

"Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to do and find a way to do that as an adult for their jobs. A lot of people have jobs they don't like, and it makes for very unhappy people. So I tell them if you like to write, or run around, or dig in the dirt, then find a job that will allow you to do that, and you'll be happy."

Writing Running Jobs

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer

Writing

"I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."

Writing Busy Conceited

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet

Writing

"No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge"

Writing Language Dignity

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Neil Simon Playwright

Writing

"Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life."

Writing Meditation Like Being Alone

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Isabel Allende Novelist

Writing

"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process."

Writing Worry Making Love

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Harper Lee Novelist

Writing

"Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write."

Thinking Writing Self

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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian

Writing

"Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk."

Thinking Writing Hard Work

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable."

Writing Home Memories

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher

Writing

"It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice."

Writing Practice Philosophical

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