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Charles Bukowski quote: "not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is..."
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. Charles Bukowski
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain? and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world. Ted Hughes
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all. Alice Munro
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. Ernest Hemingway
H. G. Wells quote: "If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of..."
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. H. G. Wells
I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body Bret Easton Ellis
I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity."The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts."I hate that."I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away. Anne Lamott
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it. Cornel West
The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if... J. K. Rowling
Johnny Depp quote: "I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of..."
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. Johnny Depp
He contrived that she should be seated by him; and was sufficiently employed in looking out the best baked apple for her, and trying to make her help or advise him in his work, till Jane Fairfax was quite ready to sit down to the pianoforte again. That she was not immediately ready, Emma did suspect to arise from the state of her nerves; she had not yet possessed the instrument long enough to touch it without emotion; she must reason herself into the power of performance; and Emma could not... Jane Austen
It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646 Charles Dickens
What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness. John Fowles
Ann Patchett quote: "that it was so completely their own that it would have been..."
...that it was so completely their own that it would have been pointless to even try to speak of it to someone else. Ann Patchett
Paulo Coelho quote: "To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you..."
To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are. Paulo Coelho

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