Writing Quotes

Twice-daily writing quotes exploring the mindset and worldview of history’s greatest authors.

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Sometimes I let myself feel the pain a little bit, as a treat

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"Every rereading of a classic is as much a voyage of discovery as the first reading."

- Italo Calvino

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"I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb."

- Herman Melville

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"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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@coaiecrete You’re missing a lot of places in this map.

For example Baltic Street, as someone else pointed out, and Sumatra Road, in Hampstead.

There’s also a Gascony Avenue and Messina Avenue near the latter.

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"When I talk about pictures in my mind I am talking, quite specifically, about images that shimmer around the edges."

- Joan Didion

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"To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet."

- Thomas Hardy

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"Were I not of a profoundly indolent, restless, adventurous nature, and horribly averse to writing, I would make a great book of this."

- H. G. Wells

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"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."

- P. L. Travers

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"It is easier to think what Poetry should be than to write it."

- John Keats

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"When I talk about pictures in my mind I am talking, quite specifically, about images that shimmer around the edges."

- Joan Didion

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"To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet."

- Thomas Hardy

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"Were I not of a profoundly indolent, restless, adventurous nature, and horribly averse to writing, I would make a great book of this."

- H. G. Wells

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"What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?"

- Lewis Carroll

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"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."

- Arthur Miller

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"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."

- Norman Mailer

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"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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"Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what you are trying to say."

- John Updike

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"Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly - they'll go through anything."

- Aldous Huxley

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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

- Herman Melville

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"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

- Edgar Allan Poe