Writing

Esther Freud Author

Writing

"Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess."

Writing Matter Kitchen

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

Writing

"My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel."

Writing Ambition Meditation

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author

Writing

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

Writing Way Subjects

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David Bowie Musician, Actor

Writing

"You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections."

Writing Ideas Cutting

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

Writing

"There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge."

Men Writing Cliffs

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Chris Kraus Writer and Filmmaker

Writing

"Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world."

Thinking Writing Talking

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Conrad Aiken Poet, Novelist

Writing

"I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do."

Writing Mean Exercise

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Bertolt Brecht Playwright, Poet

Writing

"Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking."

Thinking Writing War

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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist

Writing

"It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it."

Writing Light Fall

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Brian Wilson Musician

Writing

"I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I'm inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song."

Writing Mind Song

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Albert Einstein Physicist

Writing

"In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy."

Writing Creativity Creative

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Albert Einstein Physicist

Writing

"I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like."

Writing Looks Reading

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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist

Writing

"There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know."

Writing Should Down And

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist

Writing

"You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness."

Writing Running Filling Up

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist

Writing

"You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes."

Writing Eye Hurt

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author

Writing

"A woman who writes feels too much."

Writing Feels Too Much

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author

Writing

"It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it."

Believe Writing Self

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Artie Shaw Musician

Writing

"An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away."

Writing Artist Music

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer

Writing

"When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived."

Writing Care Sorrow

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Yash Chopra Film Director

Writing

"My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well."

Writing Giving Feelings

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