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Ezra Pound
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich?, not from real life.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich?, not from real life.
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Robert Penn Warren:
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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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Gloria Estefan:
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I'm a writer. I've written most of the music we've performed. Most people don't know that because no one cares who writes the music. But, that's who I am. I've written poetry since I was a little girl. Music was an evolution of that.
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Orhan Pamuk:
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The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I can’t do normal work as other people do. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it. I write because I want others, the whole world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey. I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but—as in a dream—can’t quite get to. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy.
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William Golding:
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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Gabriel García Márquez:
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. I don't really like to say this because it never sounds sincere, but I would really have liked for my books to have been published after my death, so I wouldn't have to go through all this business of fame and being a great writer. In my case, the only advantage to fame is that I have been able to give it a political use. Otherwise, it is quite uncomfortable. The problem is that you're famous for twenty-four hours a day, and you can't say, "Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow," or press a button and say, "I won't be famous here or now."
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Edna Ferber:
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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
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Henry Miller:
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The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.
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Samuel Johnson:
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Charles M Schulz:
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If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books-- --but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Ezra Pound:
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Ezra Pound:
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Ezra Pound:
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature is news that STAYS news.
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