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“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Book Loses Accepting Okay My Way Writing A Book

Author:Asne Seierstad

“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Art Reality Loses Space Rooms Know How Filled Intention Smell Stuck Rough Abandoned Volume Caves Arrows Tunnels Mean Words

Author:Susan Sontag

“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.”

Writing Realizing Loses Creative Pure Evidence Sociology Eden Sociological

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.”

Writing Process Loses Practice Creative Doors Keys Habit Structure Insight Instance Consistent Writing Process Invitations Daily Habits

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.”

Knows Writing Doe Ideas Done Speak Loses Losing Grateful Good Ideas Negotiation

Author:John Ashbery

“When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”

Feels Writing Trying Loses Darkness Goes On Capable Who I Am Who We Are

Author:Maya Angelou

“One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.”

People Writing Firsts Mean Has Beens Loses Influence Example Politician Destruction Theme Domain Utopian Apolitical Public Domain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.”

Writing Purpose Loses

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Done Song Interest Hours Loses Forget Half Waste Take Me Forget It Little Time

Author:Bernie Taupin

“When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.”

World Feels Writing Loses Fire Color Shrinks

Author:Anais Nin

“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Important Book Ideas Use Together Given Loses Effects Personality Sight Impression Quotations Climax Art Of Writing

Author:George Eliot

“Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.”

“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Matter Reality Social Loses Simple Poverty Strange Comfort Sight Victim Complexes Phenomenon Fades Elusive Paradoxical Personal Matter Simple And Complex

Author:Dorothy Day

“When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.”

Way Writing Trying Wells Looks Helping Running Used Reading Literature Process Loses Written Tools Running Away Escapism Losing Yourself

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.”

Needs Writing Sometimes Facts Loses Dancing Rhythm

Author:Julia Cameron

“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”

“I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.”

Writing Mind Loses Challenges Watches Paper Lows Glasses Papers Maintenance Gals

Book:Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A

Source: Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

Knows Giving Writing Wells Book Play Seems Lost Water Loses Safe Arise Impulse Destructive Ashes Something Better Shameful Keep To Yourself

Author:Annie Dillard

“There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.”

Writing Trying Artist Song Loses Careers Followers Bob Dylan Hooked

Author:Del Shannon

“Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.”

Writing Years Mind Littles Ends Loses Novel Gone Seven Accomplish Thirty Seven Years Seventh Birthday

Author:Akhil Sharma

“A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

Writing Use Political Mother Force Loses Example Poet Duty Tongue Mother Tongue Physical Force

Author:W. H. Auden

“I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.”

Writing Loses Reader Genius Vulgar Intercourse Authorship Veneration

Book:Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

Source: Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

“I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.”

Thinking Writing Long I Can Feelings Guy Loses Records Studios Planning Phases Venture Manic

Author:John Darnielle

“I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.”

World Writing I Can Loses Fiction Because I Can Writing Fiction

Author:Roxane Gay

“Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.”

Ifs Want Writing Care Reading Names Loses Audience Laughing Taken Truth Is One Day Proof Lists Magazines Bother Reviews Down The Road Bad Reviews

Author:Brett Ratner

“I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.”

Writing Mind Reason Loses No Reason

Author:Robert Coover

“Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.”

Giving Writing Loses Possibility Give Me Sense Of Humor Pathetic Sensational

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.”

Want Writing Matter Would Be Loses Subjects Rocks Rock And Roll Timeless Literacy Subject Matter

Author:Lou Reed

“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”

Ifs Writing Art Voice Loses Player Arms Baseball Singers Gamer Baseball Player More Knowledge

Author:Mickey Spillane

“Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.”

Knows Writing Hands Faces Moving House Loses Dancing Stranger Divorce Partners Checks Squares Annoying Swings Spouse Flirting Slap Bluffs Dance Moves

Author:Scott Adams

“What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.”

Writing Trying Moving Loses Too Much Particular Reader Series Harm Genre Thrive Self Harm Moving Away

Author:John Connolly

“I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience.”

Ifs Feels Writing Play Film Artist Grows Loses Acting Theater Passionate Fascinated

Author:Jonathan Groff

“I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.”

Way Feels Writing Believe I Believe Loses Growing Like You

Author:Brandi Carlile

“With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.”

Should Writing Book Loses Admirer

Author:Andre Gide

“The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I'm just more interested in that.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Mind Character Loses Hurt Situation Shocking Misconception Bad Situations

Author:Leslye Headland

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