Anthony Bourdain: When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was...

Quote	When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. Copy
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Maya Angelou
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I'm happy to be...

Quote: I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
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Stephen Hawking
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I first had the...

Quote: The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Writing

The typewriting machine, when...

Quote: Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Writing

Never lose an opportunity...

Quote: Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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Author:
C. S. Lewis
Category:
Writing

Writing is like a...

Quote: The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
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Dr. Seuss
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Quote: The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
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C. S. Lewis
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Writing

The world does not...

Quote: I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, , it's time.'
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Author:
Maya Angelou
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I don't know how...

Quote: I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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Author:
Maya Angelou
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Quote: I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
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Author:
Elon Musk
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Writing

I hate writing about...

Quote: In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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Author:
George Orwell
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Writing

In our time political...

Quote: Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Author:
Socrates
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Writing

Employ your time in...

Quote: It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
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Author:
Maya Angelou
Category:
Writing

It's so tedious writing...

Quote: Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Author:
John Muir
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Writing

Writing is like the...

Quote: Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Author:
George Orwell
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Writing

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Quote: Good writing is like a windowpane.
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George Orwell
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Good writing is like...

Quote: Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
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Author:
C. S. Lewis
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Writing

Aren't all these notes...

Quote: We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Author:
Mahatma Gandhi
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Writing

We do not need...

Quote: I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
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Author:
Mother Teresa
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Writing

I am a little...

Quote: I am one thing, my writings are another.
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Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Writing

I am one thing,...

Quote: Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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Maya Angelou
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Writing

Writing and cookery are...

Quote: So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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A. A. Milne
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Writing

So perhaps the best...

Quote: You can make anything by writing.
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Author:
C. S. Lewis
Category:
Writing

You can make anything...

Quote: The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
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Author:
Dr. Seuss
Category:
Writing

The problem with writing...

Quote: My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application – not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech – and learn them so well that words become works.
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Marcus Aurelius
Category:
Writing

My advice is really...

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