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“When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.”

Writing Real Light Ability Reader Conscious Simplicity Insight Caring

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.”

Knows Writing Real Genius Be Good Get Away Mediocrity Real Genius

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.”

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Author:Tanith Lee

“I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do - because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Kind Real Together Spiritual Can Do Fiction Practice Unreal Spiritual Practice

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.”

Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865

“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.”

Thinking Writing Mean Real Happens Together Born Creative Poet Expression Originals Prose Poetry Is Constructive Intervals Reborn Creative Expression

Author:Herbert Read

“I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.”

Want Writing Years Real Helping Stories Novel One Thing Advantage Focused Articles Short Story

Author:Markus Zusak

“Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?”

Writing Humans Looks Real Running Wall Surprise Debate Writing On The Wall

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.”

Want Writing Real Differences Get Up Procrastination

Author:Leonard Wolf

“The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.”

People Writing Has Beens Made Real Character

Author:Glen Cook

“I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.”

Thinking Writing Real Poet Boundaries Denial Taboo

Author:Katy Lederer

“Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.”

Knows Men Want Writing Kind Persons Book Real Stuff Likes Tall Real You

Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog

“Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.”

World Writing Real Fields Horror Metaphor Novelists Plus Real World Mainstream Fertile

Author:Bentley Little

“Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.”

“Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just about everything became clearer to me when I started writing about it. The more I read, the more I traveled, and the more questions I asked, the further I was pulled into the realms of history and economics, politics, literature, food, community, and all else that affects the way we live. Wine, I found, draws on everything and leads everywhere.”

Way Writing Long Real Found Literature Community Expression Draws Economics Trade Wine Realms Significance Long Ago Traveled Apprenticeship Nexus

Book:A Carafe of Red

Source: A Carafe of Red

“I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.”

Want Writing Kind Real Ends Today Song Records Mines Okay Wake Up Titles Chapters

Author:Lyle Lovett

“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”

Thinking Writing Trying Real Hard Play Facts Joy Poetry Process Behinds Practice Serious Poet Lucky Aim Excuse Technique Contact Abandon Our Thoughts Exhilarating

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.”

People Writing Mean Real Quality Proud Involved Code

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.”

Needs Writing Littles Real Interest Acting Pieces Complicated Real Life Thirst

Author:Traci Lords

“Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!”

“Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.”

Writing Real Names Water Answers Sky Identity Sand Thunder Signatures

Author:Christopher John Farley

“Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect the truth of our souls and psyches, they become real and compelling. The wonderful paradox is that the characters then take on lives of their own, separate from their creators. That's where the magic comes in.”

Writing Book Real Soul Matter Character Wonderful Magic Creator Aliens Comic Fantastic Paradox Compelling Comic Book Extensions Psych

Author:J. M. DeMatteis

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