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writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing race justice
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. Rebecca West
writing fiction half
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
novel disguise
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies. William Golding
novels three translated
Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages. Jojo Moyes
novelist
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. Sarah Waters
novel sex
It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal. George Bernard Shaw
novel humans human-beings
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly. Mohsin Hamid
novel
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. Elizabeth Hardwick
novel deals rail
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. Philipp Meyer
novel austen clothings
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. Terry Pratchett
novel
I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. Peter Carey
wanted
Everyone wanted what she couldn't have. Richelle Mead
wanted persons
My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be. Monica Denise Brown
wanted wells wanted-to-be-loved
She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well. Kate Morton
wanted stills knows
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. Leo Tolstoy
wanted
I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5. Lenny Kravitz
wanted
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. Karen Kingsbury
wanted everest climbs
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest) George Leigh Mallory
wanted knows
I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. Madeleine L'Engle
wanted
It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. Katherine Center