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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.


Elizabeth George


#beginning #book #comes #cover #end

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.


Kurt Huber


#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.


Aldous Huxley


#commit #discovery #evenings #feel #goodness

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.


Kelly Jones


#came #cold #dakota #doing #first

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.


Jerome Lawrence


#gut #mind #point #something #soul

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.


Patrice Leconte


#director #film #freedom #gives #very

If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?


C. JoyBell C.


#ancient-maps #destiny #inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.


Joyce Maynard


#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.


Anne McCaffrey


#had #i #my own #own #screen

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.


Natalie Merchant


#childhood #different #different people #experiences #gives






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