Best mercy & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.”

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Author:Thomas Chalmers

“God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.”

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Author:John Crowe Ransom

“It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so she's at their mercy, and she's at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her.”

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Author:Trina Robbins

“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”

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Author:Nina Bawden

“As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.”

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Author:Elijah Wood

“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.”

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Author:Lillian Hellman

“I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.”

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Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.”

People Ifs Writing Lying Mercy Interviews Print

Author:Gore Vidal

“I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.”

Knows Writing Know How Mercy Filmmaker

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle for me. Do it and get it to me immediately. I do want to be a lead. I want to play a lead role in a movie.”

Writing Kind Mercy Vehicle

Author:Allison Janney

“To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.”

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.”

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Book:The Dancing Mind

Source: The Dancing Mind

“Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of the Christian religion? The writings of those who preach the religion have from the very beginning insisted that it is to be proved by experience. If a man is drawn towards honour and courage and endurance, justice, mercy, and charity, let him follow the way of Christ and find out for himself. No findings in science hinder him in that way.”

Source: Science and faith, delivered before the University of Durham at King's college, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 7 March 1941

“What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.”

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Author:William E. Simon

“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?”

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Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.”

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Author:Linda Cardellini

“As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.”

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Author:Kate Collier

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