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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher

Stichwörter: words writing

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Harper Lee

Stichwörter: writing

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

Stichwörter: writing good

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

Stichwörter: humor music writing

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: writing spiritual atheism understanding atheist difficulty possibility sarcasm spirituality

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole

Stichwörter: writing history food cheese dip dunce

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Paul Valéry

Stichwörter: writing poem

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

Stichwörter: writing

After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

Frank O'Hara

Stichwörter: poetry writing drinking matches vodka