Read quote“This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.”
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About Writing
The practice, craft, and cultural significance of composing written language.
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Words on Writing
Read quote“Writing is a renaming of the world.”
Read quote“I am writing these words from a prison cell.”
Read quote“If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. It's that simple.”
Read quote“Scrisul este şi el un talent cultivat cu educaţia, ca şi toate celelalte talente.”
Read quote“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.”
Read quote“I have rarely written in the same room with anyone.”
Read quote““Precision, economy of statement, logic employed to ends that are disinterested, drawing and identifying, liberate ... the imagination.””
Read quote“It would be great to have a year or two where I went, ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’”
Read quote“« commence mon récit qui sera tout à la gloire de Dieu et au bien du patriarcat syrien d'Antioche. »”
Read quote“Todo comediante é um pouco ator, porque atua naquilo que escreve.”
Read quote“We cannot cease to say what we have seen and heard.”
Read quote“I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write.”
Read quote“I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity.”
Read quote“Mon carnet, c’est une manière de prévoir les problèmes.”
Read quote“The only reason to write about a life in showbusiness is to point out the absurdity of it all, because very little is consequential.”
Read quote“I don't set out to play real people; what usually motivates me is the quality of the writing.”
Read quote“I write because I have an innate need to write!”
Read quote“The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.”
Read quote“On ne trouve plus rien à dire alors on fait des phrases, on arrange la vérité.”
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A Box, Then a Door
Seventeen-year-old Elia expects a tidy catalog, but a box of undelivered letters leads her into the living memory of a harbor town—and toward a new way of helping people speak.
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The Orchard of Unsent Letters
A retired postal sorter finds a box of letters that were never meant to be delivered—and builds a safer way for people to begin speaking.
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