Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
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This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly..I think Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
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Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
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I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
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Syllables govern the world.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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I write-down to speak-up.
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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
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I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes..
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The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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