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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. - Edward Abbey A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. - Dean Acheson Write what should not be forgotten. - Isabel Allende Every kind of writing is hypocritical. - Max Beerbohm I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. - Ingmar Bergman You fail only if you stop writing. - Ray Bradbury Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. - Robert Burton To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. - Truman Capote Pen and ink is wit's plough. - John Clarke When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. - Rene Descartes, "Calculus Gems" by G.F. Simmons Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. - Anne Frank Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective. - Ernest Hemingway The first draft of anything is shit. - Ernest Hemingway Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. - Oliver Herford He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Who casts to write a living line, must sweat. - Ben Jonson The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. - Joseph Joubert Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. - Jack Kerouac When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. - David Herbert Lawrence You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. - Doris Lessing I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A.J. Liebling Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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