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8803 Writer Quotes

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Acceptable Deal Did Ernest Hemingway
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Happiness Depends Quality Thought
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

American Freak Regarded Think
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

About Europe He Improve
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

American Born English He
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Big Curiously Full Life
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Believe Body Gone Wagon
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

After Dead Drink Few
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
Anybody Anything Finished Never
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Beware False Knowledge Dangerous
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The writer works in a lonely way.

Lonely Way Works Writer
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Everybody Hard Keep Novel
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

About Almost Always Best
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Being He Honor Human
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Any Formula Great More
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Characters Cord Cut Own
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Even Feel Get He
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Contact Enjoy Football Get
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Cringe Critics Master Novel
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books Enough Kept Long
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Exceed Flies Flowers Me
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Again Complain Heard Him
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Always Finds Hands Idle
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Ignorance Own Your Yourself
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Difficult Learning Life Most
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Acquire Come Depart Down
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

All The World Calls Change Estate
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Clean Constant Freedom Hath
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Before Feet Gaze His
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

Could Daring Deed Foe
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Am Down English Friend
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They hate whom they fear.

Fear Attitude Hate Whom
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Citizen Crime His Lips
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Instant gratification takes too long.

Gratification Instant Instant Gratification Long
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
Body Effect I Think Mind
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The manic end of is a lot of fun.

End Fun Lot Manic
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Challenging Great Great Stories Jay
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Allowed Being Bipolar Constantly
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Acid Bulb Doctor Felt
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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

I Think Really Stern Think
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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Because Believe Committed Could
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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Amazing Find Internet Love
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Anymore Because Continue Difficult
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Drugs made me feel more normal.

Feel Made Me More
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Drive Rodeo Smart Street
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Get Older People You
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Any Because Closeness Does
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