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Image of Michael Chabon
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
- Michael Chabon
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Image of Joe
I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing
- Joe
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Image of Sophie Irene Loeb
The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.
- Sophie Irene Loeb
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Image of James M. Cain
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
- James M. Cain
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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
- James M. Cain
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Image of James M. Cain
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.
- James M. Cain
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Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
- James M. Cain
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Image of James M. Cain
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.
- James M. Cain
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Image of Emily Carr
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
- Emily Carr
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Image of Emily Carr
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.
- Emily Carr
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Image of Bill Bruford
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.
- Bill Bruford
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Image of Sandra Cisneros
I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
- Sandra Cisneros
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Image of Rex Reed
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
- Rex Reed
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Image of Jeffrey Rosen
Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there’s so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.
- Jeffrey Rosen
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Image of Yves Klein
Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
- Yves Klein
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Image of Michael Dirda
Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
- Michael Dirda
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Image of Marion Woodman
Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.
- Marion Woodman
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Image of Nathaniel Borenstein
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
- Nathaniel Borenstein
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Image of Craig Claiborne
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
- Craig Claiborne
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Image of William Crookes
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.
- William Crookes
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Image of Helene Cixous
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
- Helene Cixous
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Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
- Helene Cixous
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And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.
- Helene Cixous
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Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
- Helene Cixous
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When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.
- Helene Cixous
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Image of Keith Green
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.
- Keith Green
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Image of Isabel Allende
Write what should not be forgotten.
- Isabel Allende
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Image of Yngwie Malmsteen
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
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Image of Roger Ascham
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
- Roger Ascham
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Image of Roger Ascham
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
- Roger Ascham
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Image of Bill Budge
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
- Bill Budge
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Image of Bill Budge
I write my programs primarily for myself.
- Bill Budge
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Image of John Goodman
I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf.
- John Goodman
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Image of F. F. Bruce
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
- F. F. Bruce
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Image of Glenn Tipton
I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.
- Glenn Tipton
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Image of Wally Lamb
Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
- Wally Lamb
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Image of John F. Kieran
I am a part of all I have read.
- John F. Kieran
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Image of Orrin Hatch
Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.
- Orrin Hatch
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Image of Julie Burchill
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
- Julie Burchill
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Image of Verlyn Klinkenborg
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
- Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Image of Peter Vidmar
Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.
- Peter Vidmar
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Image of Kristin Hunter
Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.
- Kristin Hunter
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Image of Kristin Hunter
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.
- Kristin Hunter
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Image of Augustus De Morgan
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
- Augustus De Morgan
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Image of Augustus De Morgan
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]
- Augustus De Morgan
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Image of Jean Sibelius
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.
- Jean Sibelius
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Image of Steven Curtis Chapman
The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to write my story, it's when I can read the story of others who are following Christ, who are committed, but just are still on the journey. They haven't arrived, and can be honest about that process.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
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Image of Michael Ventura
I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for others, as a door to go through it they choose, is the price of the experience, the price of the ticket. This is the demand that God, if you like, puts on you for being an artist.
- Michael Ventura
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Image of Michael Ventura
These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.
- Michael Ventura
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