Writing

Joyce Cary Novelist

Writing

"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."

Writing Emotional Crafts

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Jennifer Morrison Actress

Writing

"As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television show where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing."

Writing Character Lucky

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Martin Gore Musician

Writing

"God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion."

Writing Needs Song

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Maud Hart Lovelace Author

Writing

"People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?"

Writing Life Eye

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Mort Walker Cartoonist

Writing

"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."

Writing Knows Research

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Hoodie Allen Rapper

Writing

"I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to change people's moods. I try to write my story in a way that people can take for themselves and their own life."

People Thinking Writing

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist

Writing

"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."

Writing Making Love Pneumonia

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Hugh Grant Actor

Writing

"I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!"

Writing Book Creativity

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author

Writing

"Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life."

Thinking Writing Has Beens

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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter

Writing

"I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future."

Writing Heart Song

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet

Writing

"If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything."

Writing Feet Skirts

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Patti Smith Musician

Writing

"When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel."

Writing Desire Secret

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Plato Philosopher

Writing

"Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject."

Men Writing Serious Man

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night."

Writing Night Awake

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer

Writing

"A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity."

Men Writing Wife

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer

Writing

"Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes."

Writing Creative Intuition

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

Writing Inspiring Finishing It

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times."

Writing Arms Farewell

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."

Writing Feelings Water

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic

Writing

"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

Writing Book Reading

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