One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.
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Related Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Bound by custom or unique by choice. MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won. In the west, deeds are done. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation. ROGER SCRUTON When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into ... CARRIE FISHER He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? ... MICK JONES Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you ... RICHARD RUSSO If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It is the giving wolf, who is also the killing wolf.... MASTER CHIEF 117 If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before ... A. S. BYATT I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to wri... AARON NEVILLE For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's wei... SAMPHA Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... LAINI TAYLOR If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second... KAMAND KOJOURI I told the guys (other assistants), 'If you think of something, write it down, because I'm not going... NORM CHOW You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing. ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS DOES IT LOOK LIKE, I CARE ABOUT YA? DEYTH BANGER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... KELSEA BALLERINI Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God... CRAIG GROESCHEL I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to ... AGATHA CHRISTIE If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Ju... CLAIRE DANES I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ... KRISTIN ARMSTRONG To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l... RICHARD BRANSON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write somethi... LAUREN MILLER You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading... PAUL RUDNICK When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d... CHRIS LOWE Learn, relearn and outlearn. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA If you think you can do it, you can. JOHN BURROUGHS Does the person you're throwing those words at have as much strength to catch catch them as you did ... AUDREY REGAN I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it. EMM GRYNER Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve... WALTER GILBERT He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. LEMONY SNICKET You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... IDINA MENZEL if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't take it easy until life goes down to your level. EMILY THOMAS Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write... MICHAEL MORPURGO It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a... RAYMOND CHANDLER I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, a... JANE ASHER I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example... DANNY WALLACE I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. BONNIE JO CAMPBELL You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at ... DORIS LESSING Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei... SYLVIA PLATH If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! JACKIE COLLINS If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. JACKIE COLLINS To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the... JANINE DI GIOVANNI It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr... SALMAN RUSHDIE Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... JODI PICOULT O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and charact... ERIC BROWN To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about thi... CHERRELLE 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any... GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i... GARY F EVANS... When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that... ROB LOWE Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff. CHARLES KING I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even ... MARY OLIVER We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is tha... ROXANE GAY This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing o... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS until you prove what is in you, what is in you shall always be what is in you ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writ... JONATHAN GUNSON I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation... BILL CALLAHAN God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o... JOEY TALLADINO I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. I... LUCY LARCOM Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writi... MEG CABOT If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. VAN MORRISON It ain't bragging if you can do it. DIZZY DEAN Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen! JUAN A. JIMENEZ People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... TEJU COLE Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING
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THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON