Writings Quotes (page 110)

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• writing
• poetry
• secrets

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? Virginia Woolf

• happy love
• feeling
• love smile

I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don't expect anything from anyone; expectations always hurt. Life is short. So love your life. Be happy. And keep smiling. Just Live for yourself and always remember: Before you speak... Listen. Before you write... Think. Before you spend... Earn. Before you pray... Forgive. Before you hurt... Feel. Before you hate... Love. Before you quit... Try. Before you die... Live... That’s Life…Feel it, Live it and Enjoy it. William Shakespeare

• understanding
• book
• attitude

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings. Andre Gide

• death
• writing
• new

If you're from New Jersey,” Nathan had said, “and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live to be white-haired and ninety-five, it's highly unlikely but not impossible that after your death they'll decide to name a rest stop for you on the Jersey Turnpike. And so, long after you're gone, you may indeed be remembered, but mostly by small children, in the backs of cars, when they lean forward and tell their parents, 'Stop, please, stop at Zuckerman—I have to make a pee.'... Philip Roth

• reading
• writing
• hard

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Primo Levi

• good
• writing
• tree

You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good. J. K. Rowling

• girl
• movie
• girls

The smart and funny write Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe a version of this archetype after seeing Kristen Dunst in the movie Elizabethtown. Mindy Kaling

• writing
• she
• humorous

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . Charles Bukowski

• writing
• mind
• mindfulness

I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind William Shakespeare

• writing
• poem
• wants

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write. Mary Oliver

• writing
• you me
• write

I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition. J. D. Salinger

• writing
• she
• different

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him. Carson McCullers

• writing
• animal
• manly

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. Lewis Carroll

• book
• reading
• writing

If there's a book you want to read and it hasn't been written yet you must write it. Toni Morrison

• end
• writing
• wedding

And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat...I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had... Sylvia Plath