Quotes 581 till 600 of 602.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue - agree with him.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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