Famous Quotes: Writing

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
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Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.
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I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
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Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
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In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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