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I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs. -- Shannon Hoon
The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time. -- Susan Vreeland
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. -- Elizabeth Bowen
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature. -- Jonathan Kozol
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. -- Buddy Ebsen
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them. -- Barry Eisler
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it. -- Rush Limbaugh
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. -- Kevin Smith
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. -- Ezra Pound
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style. -- Mitch Albom
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers. -- Kevin Smith
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. -- Terry Eagleton
A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value. -- Junot Diaz
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books. -- Jack Canfield
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty. -- James Fenton
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. -- William Carlos Williams
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that. -- Virginia Woolf

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