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Letter "W" » Writers
«There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.»
«They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.»
«The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.»
Author: Marcel Achard
(Playwright)
| About:
Careers,
Money,
Pleasure,
Writers
| Keywords:
comparable, comparable to, comparable with
«There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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Writers
| Keywords:
evenings, Long Winter, second thought, second world, The Long, The Third, Third World, winter
«The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.»
Author: Toni Morrison
(Editor, Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Imagination,
Writers
| Keywords:
familiarize, familiarizes, familiarizing, mystify, mystifying, The Strange
«They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they gave it to me.»
«The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.»
«There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Writers
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celebrated, delighted, Groves, In a Grove, melody, rivulet, scarcely, The Whisper
«There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.»
«The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.»
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