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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Writing

"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit."

Men Writing Political
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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
Writing

"Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States."

Writing Past Order
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
Writing

"Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now."

Writing Sleep Exercise
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Writing

"It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs."

Writing Song Impact
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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
Writing

"I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something."

Writing Struggle Confused
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Writing

"I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'"

Writing Trying Mother
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Writing

"I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished."

Writing Years Book
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Writing

"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you"

Writing Night Wall
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Writing

"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Writing Order Should Have
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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
Writing

"Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives."

Writing Hands Names
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