Quotes 201 till 220 of 437.
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Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
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Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
Source: The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64 -
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about.
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