Writing

Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat

Writing

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her."

Writing Pain Suffering

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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter

Writing

"Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters."

Writing Poetry Sake

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Barack Obama Politician

Writing

"A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now."

Writing Together Chapters

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Patti Smith Musician

Writing

"Often the simplest song is the hardest to write."

Writing Song Hardest

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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter

Writing

"A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now."

Writing Artist Memories

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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter

Writing

"It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then."

Writing Years Teenage

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian

Writing

"It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die."

Writing Character Battle

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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter

Writing

"I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen."

Believe Writing Couple

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Calvin Trillin Author, Humorist

Writing

"I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot."

Thinking Writing Self Confidence

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Barry Hannah Author

Writing

"I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct."

Writing Done Too Much

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher

Writing

"Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times."

Thinking Men Writing

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor

Writing

"Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write."

Writing Inspirational Ifs

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

Writing Hurt Chaos

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."

Writing Inspiring Judging

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."

Writing Organization Loneliness

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do."

Writing Trying Wonderful

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."

People Writing Abuse

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Writing

"Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent."

Writing Real Two

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

Writing

"All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker."

Writing Life Learning

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist

Writing

"Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform."

Writing Should Performing

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