All Quotes By Tag: Writing-life
“Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.”
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“Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing…. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
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“It isn’t the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.”
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“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
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“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?”
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“You can have practically anything you want in this world, if you have great credit.”
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“Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks.”
“Stop now and decide to never worry again about what others think about you.”
“Start having more confidence in yourself, and others will do the same.”
“Have you noticed how prejudice still exists today. For instance, now they challenge famous people for their past achievements: People like Christopher Columbus and now even Vince lombardi. Nothing surprises me. I never grew-up with prejudices against anyone. I don’t care what color you are or where you came from. This sort of stuff to me never made sense. You see I grew up in a “educated family.” Education teaches you not to be so ignorant.”
“Don’t ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.”
“God still works in us and through us when we feel like we’re not producing anything worth writing home about.”
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“Literature is the ditch I’m going to die in. It’s still the thing I care most about.”
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“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
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“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”