It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind.
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One half of the people of this nation to day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'
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Mayakovsky has an essay called How to Write Poems where he says that a poet must spend time and effort choosing the uniquely appropriate words, force them into the rhythm of the poem and then test it out loud ten times or more. Vertov did something ve
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
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I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
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Will fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach, and no food, Such as are the poor in health; or else a feast, And takes away the stomach, such are the rich, That have abundanc
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I write music with an exclamation point
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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Writing science labs is a simple task. You just have to list facts down and a write conclusion based on your facts. Like this one: You have scalpel, and a frog. Stab the frog with a scalpel. The conclusion: The frog is dead.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
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My girlfriend does her nails with whiteout. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
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If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
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If you write the word monkey a million times, do you start tothink you're Shakespeare?
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Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything butlive for it.
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It is not poetry that makes men poor; For few do write that were not so before.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Never write a letter while you are angry.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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