Learning How To Write Quotes

• A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Writing, Pieces, Paper

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  Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Night, Journey

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• It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Business, Writing, Thinking

  "With Hemingway". Book by Arnold Samuelson, 1984.

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Being Alone, Writing

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• Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Creativity, People

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• First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

  Ray Bradbury

  Hero, Writing, Want

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• It's dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Play

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

  Morgan James

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Reading, Writing, Touching

  Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo (2005). “Literacy: Reading the Word and the World”, p.12, Routledge

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• I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers"/ "Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany)", www.youtube.com. November 26, 2007.

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• I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

  Jonny Lang

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  Writing, Helping, Archaeology

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• You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

  Sue Grafton

  Book, Writing, Years

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• There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.

  Rashida Jones

  Writing, Leaving, Trying

  "Keeping Up with Rashida Jones". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hard Work, Writing, Past

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• I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Interview with Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

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• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Men

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• I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

  Corey Haim

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "Me, Myself and I". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

  Lucy Hale

  Writing, Stories, Breaking Down

  Song: Road Between, Album: Road Between, 2014

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• A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Writing, Learning, Winning

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• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  Hal David

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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