All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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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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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
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When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.
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Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergartenhappy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
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