Malcolm Cowley Quotes
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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I love writing songs.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
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I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.
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'We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.''I’m aware of the problems,' she said. '‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.'
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.
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The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
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Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
