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  • Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Writing Quotes , Plain Language Quotes
  • There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Home Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hate Quotes , Writing Quotes