Writing

Nas Rapper, Songwriter

Writing

"And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes."

Writing Stuff Dykes

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Gary Vaynerchuk Entrepreneur, Author

Writing

"Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day."

Writing Business Motivation

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Neil Gaiman Author

Writing

"Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving."

Writing Moving Perfection

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Irwin Shaw Novelist, Playwright

Writing

"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."

Writing Ideas Glasses

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Francoise Sagan Author

Writing

"Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say."

Writing Ideas Shadow

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Georgia O'Keeffe Artist

Writing

"You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't."

Thinking Writing Flower

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Franz Kafka Writer

Writing

"Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night."

Writing Night Sleep

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Fred Allen Comedian, Actor

Writing

"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."

Writing Years Funny

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet

Writing

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

Writing Tables Ink

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet

Writing

"There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once."

Writing Spiritual Cities

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James M. Cain Novelist

Writing

"Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational."

Writing Problem Foreign Policy

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

Writing

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."

Writing Sleep Determination

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician

Writing

"Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!"

Writing Race Average

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Li-Young Lee Poet

Writing

"Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself."

Writing Revealing Apocalyptic

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer

Writing

"I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs."

Thinking Writing Long

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Jimmy Buffett Musician, Author

Writing

"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."

Believe Writing New Orleans

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

Writing

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

Writing Dream

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

Writing

"Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted."

Writing Art Inspirational

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Lisa Marie Presley Singer

Writing

"I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together it was probably in my early 20s, where I put words to music for the first time."

Writing Together Singing

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist

Writing

"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."

People Writing Tired

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