Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Writing
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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
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Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
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The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.
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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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