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«I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Thinking,
Writing
| Keywords:
all out, at any cost, conscious, cost, costing, cost of living, write, writing
«I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.»
Author: James A. Michener
| About:
Emotion,
Writing
| Keywords:
emotions, swing, Swing On, swing over, swirl, swirled, swirling, Swirls, swung, tangle, tangles, tangle with, The Swing, written word
«I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.»
«I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
current, express, impressions, interpreter, interprets, invent, One of Us, perceived, The Current, The Task, The Word, writer
«I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
a bit, bit, curse, cursed with, typewriter, typewriters
«I lived to write, and wrote to live»
«I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.»
«I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.»
«I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
dedication, membership, passionately, perfectibility
«I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Talking,
Writing
| Keywords:
about, also known as, anything, Did you know, know, love, nothing, nothings, only, out of nothing, talking, Talk to Her, their talk, The More You Know, thing, this talk
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