Best time & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.”

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Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.”

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Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.”

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

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Book:Selected Letters, 1917-1961

Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”

“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

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Book:The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”

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Author:Nadia Boulanger

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”

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Book:Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

“True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.”

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Author:Aristotle

“And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”

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Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time”

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Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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