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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes…
— Jeffrey Carver
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
— David McCullough
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I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
— Owen Wilson
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
— Barbara Mertz
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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers -…
— Walt Whitman
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What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No…
— Gail Sher
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and…
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is…
— E L Doctorow
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
— Calvin Trillin
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science…
— Roland Barthes
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What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
— Stephen King
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