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When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.
Jill Soloway
Life
Alone
Time
Happy
Ego
Safety
Reward
Will
Lose
Real Life
Intimacy
Way
Find
Finding
Fingers
Having
Computer
Write
Between
Like
Knowing
Known
Audience
Real
Brain
Very
Being
Being Alone
Hard
Hard Time
Satisfying
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Michael Jackson
Good
News
People
Cause
Good News
Negatives
Write
Feel
Sell
Sells
Them
Things
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
You
Speak
Water
Edge
Must
Write
Another
Sand
Ill
Near
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo Coelho
Me
Soul
Hurt
World
Pretending
Else
Critics
Someone
My Soul
Could
Write
Know
Because
Am
Then
Reason
Who
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Words
Word
Enormous
Changed
Way
Right Word
Could
Write
He
Idea
Pictures
Make
Him
Read
Learned
Difference
Order
Literature
Conveying
Choosing
Paint
European
Professor
Illustrated
Right
Image
University
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
William Goldman
Earth
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Write
Thing
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
Catherine O'Hara
New Year's
Myself
Made
Would
Something
Write
Lazy
New
Know
Years
December
Which
Really
Means
Special
Right
Resolution
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Angry
Wish
Understanding
Preach
Must
I Wish
Compose
Write
Veins
Sharpened
Well
Pray
Blood
Stirred
Then
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
Music
Peace
Poet
Musician
Must
Write
He
Make
Himself
Ultimately
Artist
Paint
Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
Ashwin Sanghi
Drunk
Marketing
Write
Edit
Hangover
Sober
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David Bowie
Me
People
Perspective
Tend
Write
Take
Drives
Leads
Look
Most
Malevolent
Curiosity
Different
Little
Different Perspective
Things
Need
As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Myself
Speak
Liberty
Citizen
Long
Country
Whatever
Publish
Please
Runs
Laws
Shall
Write
Veins
Am
Subject
Blood
Amenable
American
Same
Any
American Citizen
Being
Hold
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes
Rule
Easily
Out
Charges
Drilling
Write
Blasting
Perfectly
Like
Rock
How
Then
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
You
Money
Real Estate
Lawyer
Down
Books
Wills
About
Guys
Steal
Lawyers
Write
Take
Nobody
Stuff
Read
Does
Real
Off
Sell
Want
Estate
Wants
Interesting
Who
Fun
Fun Stuff
Street
Honest
Loans
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
John Jakes
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Shine
Believe
Every
Above
Finish
Through
Write
Piece
Sentence
Who
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen
Work
Me
People
Song
Work Hard
World
Value
Hunger
Out
High
Having
Write
Nails
Dodging
Yeah
Bullets
Very
Dungeons
Any
Famine
Where
Place
Hard
Compared
Pulled
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.
Muhammad Yunus
Life
Economic Crisis
You
Overcome
Mind
Will
Free
Poverty
Before
Society
Our
Crisis
Economic
Write
Never
Envision
Make
Fiction
Happen
Happened
Social
Them
Flaws
Social Life
Things
Need
Imagine
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
Robert J. Sawyer
Good
You
Soul
Heart
Writing
Research
Out
Find
About
Write
Good Writing
Know
Heart And Soul
Should
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
Shaun Tan
Wisdom
History
Creative
Mistake
Sometimes
Accidents
Way
Draw
Logic
More
Only
Inventions
Results
Write
Part
Concept
Arriving
Than
Any
The History Of
Realise
Much
Successful
Act
Creative Act
Full
Unintended
Serendipity
Original
Necessary
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.
Sholom Aleichem
Best
You
Yourself
Better
Will
Think
Others
Pen
About
Write
Pick
Know
Know Yourself
Up
Die
Who
Things
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.'
Sylvia Plath
Writing
Remember
Will
Wish
Feelings
Down
Ability
Poem
Could
Write
Feels
Like
Aloud
Know
Because
Said
How
Am
Up
Snow
Forgotten
Being
Eight
Little
Grow
Grow Up
Now
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.
Tom Wolfe
Love
Great
Me
Writing
Joy
Out
Great Joy
About
Write
Writers
Adventure
Know
Most
Still
Discovering
Reporting
Going
Things
It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You
Money
Our
Pretend
Impact
Write
Policy
Masters
Sources
Just
Disingenuous
Serve
Two
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin
Art
You
Culture
Writing
Our
Out
Through
Write
Cry
Sing
Because
Breathe
Then
Use
If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?
Charles Bukowski
Good
You
Women
Censorship
Met
White
Complain
Say
Bad
About
Blacks
Only
Write
Badly
Because
Dogs
Were
Males
Who
Many
Even
Homosexuals
Need
Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.
Dara Horn
You
World
Every
Impact
Something
Write
Know
Legacy
Person
May
Your
Tombstone
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