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Letter "W" » Writers
«The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.»
«The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.»
«The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.»
Author: Maria Lenhart
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«The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.»
Author: Robert Anderson
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Actors and acting,
Writers,
Writing
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concerns, conviction, mission, missions, Mission of, of course, Passion play, playwright, playwrights, The Mission, the play
«The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
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Writers
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notion, rested, solely, suspicion
«The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
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Writing
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«The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.»
Author: John Updike
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Writers
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accidents, actualities, actuality, creative work, presentation, presentations, victim
«The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.»
«The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside»
«The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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History,
Writers
| Keywords:
contemporary history, ventures
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