Quotes 301 till 320 of 486.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
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The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
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The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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