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I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
Writing About Having Gypsy Being Experiences Them Keep Traveling Need
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? Dennis Potter
Writing Amazing Leap Metaphor Human Create Strangest Thing Speech
I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book. Don Novello
Time Book Writing Thought Enough Nixon Magazine More Had Had Enough Wrote Well Article Esquire Maybe Anyway Sent Might Sudden Letter Letters Playboy Kept
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. Dr. Seuss
You Writing Problem Way Out Rate Attack Throw Main Mortality New Come Terrific Got Line Lines Verse New Way Your Figure Whole Away Right Four Fourth
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. Dr. Seuss
Politics Writing Political Too Much Drop Become Thinking Too Books Out Stay Cartoonist About Because Begin Children Again Much
Writing is hard work and bad for the health. E. B. White
Work Hard Work Health Writing Bad Hard
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E. L. Doctorow
Writing Schizophrenia Acceptable Form Socially
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. Edie Sedgwick
Life You Writing Care Painting Living Other Enough Changing Way Kind Corresponding Objects Involving Want Moving Really Fulfilled Your Thing
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. Edward Dahlberg
Writing Our Ancestors Farming Conscience
Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go. Elif Safak
Relationship You Writing Addicted Ways Bad Like Because Go Familiar Just Just Because Let Go
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft. Elizabeth George
Art Writing Discipline Passion Both Craft Taught
To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from. Elliott Yamin
Life Adversity Character Me You Writing Simple Overcome Singing Build Able Inspiration Simple Things Obstacles Most Offer Where Order Succeed Things Appreciate
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny. Elmore Leonard
Funny Day Me You Sense Of Humor Every Day Writing Humor Thought Become Sense Every Think Too Say Would Someone Could Write He Written Like Perhaps Know Got Sound Occurred Did Just Anything Then Your Sudden Hemingway Start Copy
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them. Elon Musk
Facebook Hate Writing Twitter About Both Stuff Am Account Familiar Personal Personal Stuff Them Page Use
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. Ernest Gaines
Writing Old Seriously Thought Back New Suppose Wrote Because Years York New York Sent Novel Started
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway
Travel Writing Mind Broaden Write Like Up Your Standing Standing Up
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. Ernest Hemingway
Love Alone Time Best You People Writing Will Enough About Rather Ruthless Write Leave Time People Any Certainly Interrupt
I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it. Eve Ensler
Time Me Writing Regret Discipline Long Long Time Took Nine About Make Always Years Waitress Taught Which Career
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window. F. Sionil Jose
Work Time You Writing Looking Live Out Window Writer He Simply Contemplation Devote Enable Said Often Manner Should Even
It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam. G. Willow Wilson
You People Writing Mistakes Islam Making Mistakes Sense Assume Muslims About Somehow Seems Prophet No Sense Write Individualism Like Making Whenever Capable Muhammad Connected
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life Love Time Me People Writing My Life Wish Live Thinking Spend Would About Seems Could Lifetime No-One Clear Clearly Like Know How Been Years Friends Very Asked Really Cholera Now
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. Galina Vishnevskaya
Me Writing Television About Voice Could Simply Longer Major Heard Stopped Newspapers Radio
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. Gene Fowler
Best Good You Writing Remember Become Way Best Way Writer Good Writing Read Forget Where Then Successful
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right. George Steiner
Hope Risks Writing Judge Sometimes Find Small Take Wrong Unwilling Stylistic Am Goes Often Much Means Right
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. Georges Simenon
Writing Vocation Unhappiness Profession
There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac! Gerry Rafferty
Life Depression Best Me Writing Darkest My Life Singing Has-Been Some More Through Songs Written Taking Periods Been Effective Very Than Prozac Where Experienced Much Therapeutic Moments
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