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146 quotes (Page 2 of 6 pages)Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Writers and Writing
Horace
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Writers and Writing
Harold Pinter
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Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Writers and Writing
Bill Wheeler
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Writers and Writing
Anita Brookner
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Writers and Writing
William Zinsser
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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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Nicholas Boileau
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Wayne Dyer
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
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Moliere
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Washington Irving
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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Bertrand Russell
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Truman Capote
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Irwin Shaw
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Writers and Writing
George Eliot
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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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Ernest Hemingway
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Henry James
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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D. H. Lawrence
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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Peter De Vries
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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William Faulkner
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
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Don Marquis
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
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Ken Kesey
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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V. S. Naipaul
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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
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Peter Handke
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun