Quotes 341 till 360 of 486.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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The true use of a letter is to let one know that one is remembered and valued.
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
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The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
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