A. V. Dicey Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

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There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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