Writing

Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher

Writing

"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person."

Writing Style Natural

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Brian Jacques Author

Writing

"The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it."

Writing Heart Blue

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist

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"Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty."

Writing Mean Creativity

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright

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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

Writing Fiction Telling The Truth

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright

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"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

Writing Art Powerful

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist

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"You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death."

Writing Protect

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William S. Burroughs Writer

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"You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live."

Writing Creating Islands

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night."

Writing Night House

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Willow Smith Actress, Singer

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"There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing."

Writing Novel Best Things

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright

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"We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith."

Writing Book Beautiful

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

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"A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults."

Writing Kids Upset

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Sally Mann Photographer

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"There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself."

Thinking Writing Sweat

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak."

Writing Inspirational Language

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures."

Writing Culture Treasure

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

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"To hold a pen is to be at war."

Writing War Peace

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist

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"When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle."

Writing Bottles Geese

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist

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"I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts."

Writing Book Rap

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist

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"We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing."

Writing Funny Work

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet

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"When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind."

Believe Writing Mind

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker

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"A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life."

Writing Life Change

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