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As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. - Henry David Thoreau A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. - Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord (Sunday) To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. - John Updike We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote. - Theophile de Viau (c/k/a Theophile} Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write. - Edith Newbold Wharton (nee Jones), A Backward Glance I write to understand as much as to be understood. - Elie Wiesel I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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