Bret Harte Quotes, Writing Quotes, Together Quotes

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

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Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

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If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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