Quotes of: I-write Keyword

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

Dead Poets Society

Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.

Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live

The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.

Hell's Angels

In the works of , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

Apollo Weeps

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

Freddie Hubbard

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!

Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

And then—what?—you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?

I'm on the Way to a Brighter Day: A Collection of Writings on Feeling Good about Yourself and Making Your Life the Best It Can Be

Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem