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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them
John Ashbery
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Experiences
Mind
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I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.
John Ashbery
Thought
Writing
Poetry
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In spicing up your relationship, there must be romance. Romance for singles could be opening the door, writing nice and funny notes.But for couples, it is more than that. Do something different.
Godman Akinlabi
Spicing up
Your relationship
Be romance
Something different
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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
John Dewey
Art
Writers
Painters
Expression
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Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
John Dryden
Write
Critics
Revenge
Spite
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
John Fowles
Write
Poems
Poets
Words
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There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles
Reasons
Write
Create
World
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The writer is more servant than master of his story.
John Gardner
Writer
Servant
Master
Story
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The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.
John Gardner
Way
World
Writer's block
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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
John Gardner
Limiting
Imagination
Writing
Know
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One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel
John Gardner
Crazy
Write
Great novel
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Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.
John Gardner
Capable
Writing
Fiction
Mind
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One of the biggest mistakes we make as human beings is judging people. Writing people off, drawing conclusions and making verdicts without having the facts and details.
Nathaniel Bassey
Biggest mistakes
Human beings
Judging people
Writing people off
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
John Hersey
Writer
Invent
License
Read
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.
John Hersey
Writer
Deal
Satisfied
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything
John Irving
Way
Writer
Behave
Time
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This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
John Irving
Writer's
Learn
Imagine
Sounds
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Wrinkles
Written
Heart
Spirit
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read
John Kenneth Galbraith
Pleasures
Writing
Work
Read
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.
John M. Ford
Books
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Reader
Shadow
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It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
John Mellencamp
Responsibility
Singer
Report
News
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The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
John Newton
Best advice
Jesus
Beauty
Word
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Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls
John Owen
Holiness
Writing
Gospel
Souls
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I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
John Piper
Myself
Learn
Write
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Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
John Prine
Writing
Blank piece
Leaving
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The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.
John Prine
Best way
Write
Song
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
John Prine
Ignorance
Bliss
Writer
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Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
John Ruskin
Reading
Writing
Education
People
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
Great nations
Book
Words
Art
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck
Writers
Below
Clowns
Trained seals
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck
Give
Critic
Write
Play
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
Discipline
Written word
Stupidity
Dishonesty
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
Loneliness
Writer
Explain
Inexplicable
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
John Steinbeck
Writer
Believe
Dedication
Literature
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
Profession
Book writing
Stable
Business
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
John Updike
Want
Write
Book
Head
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike
Writing
Criticism
Fiction
Poetry
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
Write
Shield
Hiding
Pain
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
Jon Ronson
Solve
Mystery
Enjoy
Writing
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I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
Jonathan Kozol
Teachers
Speak
Voices
Writers
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When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Dies
Books
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Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reading
Writing
Civil
Intellectual
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
Jorge Luis Borges
Pride
Pages
Written
Read
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Jorge Luis Borges
Writing
Guided
Dream
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The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral
Jorge Luis Borges
Art
Writing
Opinions
Ephemeral
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry
Oral
Art
Written
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
Jorge Luis Borges
Problem
Writing
Casualty
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
José Saramago
Language
Writers
Express
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If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
José Saramago
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Books
Life
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see
Joseph Conrad
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Power
Hear
Feel
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