Writing Quotes

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Writing

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typ

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

Good Writing

if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the

if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

Writing

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend--a lousy poem.

Life Art Singing Soul Writing Dancing

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else ex

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Writing

He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to thro

He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its pruity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors.

Writing Authorship

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a cra

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Writing Quip Crayon

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Philosophy Inspirational Writing

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Writing

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari.

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

Writing

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this i

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing Self Walden Myself Coat First Person

The first draft of anything is shit.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Writing Writing Life Elves

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Charles Dickens

Ideas Writing Inspiration

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Reading Writing

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, le

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.

Writing Agents

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.(Interview with , 1958)

Ernest Hemingway

Writing Creative Process Completeness Omission

Like madness is the glory of life.

Like madness is the glory of life.

William Shakespeare

Life Writing Inspiration Living

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer u

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

Writing

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yo

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Writing