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#writes

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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.


Mickey Spillane


#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?


Wislawa Szymborska


#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.


David Sedaris


#connor #dialect #even #should #than

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.


Martin Luther


#also #bible #clouds #flowers #god

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.


Gerry Mulligan


#miles #miles davis #plays #songs #who

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.


James M. Barrie


#compares #diary #every #every man #his

Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it.


C. E. Montague


#rewrites #change

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.


Jeff Tweedy


#about #allowing #anybody #anyway #bad

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#length #makes #observations #out #talent

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.


Gore Vidal


#anything #builds #certainly #done #gives






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