Aristotle Quotes, Writing Quotes, Speak Quotes

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

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Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.

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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

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Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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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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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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