Writing Quotes
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Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
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You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
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Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
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Each one writes history according to his convenience.
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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
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Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
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You don't write a book to show off.
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I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
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The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
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Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
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Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
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Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
