A Quotes
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“All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.”
Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
“All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.”
Source: The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ...
“All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”
“All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.”
“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”
Source: The Storyteller
“All writers steal from their own lives.”
Source: The Book of Lies
“All writers want their words to have an effect. Novelists want to entertain, to reveal truth, to move, to provoke reverie. And beyond? Do they want their readers to act as a result of their words? It depends.”
Source: Departure
“All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.”
“All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.”
“All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.”
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.”
“All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.”
“All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.”
“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.”
“All writing begins in the sea of experience.”
Source: Writing as a road to self-discovery
“All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.”
“All writing is a form of prayer.”
“All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.”
“All writing is a process of elimination.”
“All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?”
“All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.”
Source: Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings
“All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.”
Source: the elements of style
“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”
“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”
“All writing is dreaming”
“All writing is experimental when it comes to prose & poetry. And when people demean or insult someone's ideas or work in such a manner it shows ignorance & arrogance.
The close minded never progress.”
Source: WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT
“All writing is filth”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“All writing is guilty until proven innocent.”
Source: In Limbo
“All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?”
Source: Re/search #4/5: A Special Book Issue
“All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.”
“All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.”
“All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.”
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
Source: The New Writer's Handbook 2007: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft & Career
“All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!”
Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877
“All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing”
Source: Treasure: uncovering patterns and principles that create prosperity
“All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.”
Source: The Human Machine: Human Understanding
“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
“All ye that pass by!
While we least think it he prepares his Mate.
Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases,
Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.”
“All year I've felt like I had to be on my best behavior, like I was auditioning for new friendships, new identities, a new life.”
Source: People We Meet on Vacation
“All year long you are close to me
And, like formerly, happy and young!
Aren't you tortured already
By the traumatized strings' dark song?
Those now only lightly moan
That once, taut, loudly rang
And aimlessly they are torn
By my dry, waxen hand.
Little is necessary to make happy
One who is tender and loving yet,
The young forehead is not touched yet
By jealousy, rage or regret.
He is quiet, does not ask to be tender,
Only stares and stares at me
And with blissful smile does he bear
My oblivion's dreadful insanity.”
“All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.”
“All yesterdays develop us for tomorrows
Errors, mistakes, the wrongs in life are learning tools
We are not to repeat them but to change direction from them”
Source: No Place for Darkness
“All yings are time rats, time bandits. Open their guts and what you find inside their digestive tract are the second and minutes of hundreds of men’s lives. Time cannibals. All those broken minute and hour hands just lying undigested in their stomach. It makes me want to drink.”
Source: Cold Hit: A Novel
“All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.”
“All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.”
“All you are is the music. Not just whatever piece of it you yourself are playing. Not just the rhythm, the beat, the drive. Not just your sticks against your own drum.
You're part of the whole thing. Your rhythm is part of the harmony, and that's part of the melody, and all of it together is what makes it music.
I don't know what that feeling is. Maybe it's joy. Maybe it's freedom. Maybe it's having space--space to create something with your body and your energy and your intention that doesn't exist for any reason other than being beautiful.”
“All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.”