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Letter "W" » Writing
«Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.»
«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.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Books,
Speech,
Writing
| Keywords:
evidence, figures, figure of speech, public figure, Speeches
«The waste basket is the writer's best friend.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
basket, best friend, waste basket, writer
«This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor, containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility......the characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them and equally horrified by them......»
«To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.»
Author: Robert E Sherwood
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
gullible, imaginative, imbecile, imbeciles, naive, passionate, sensitive
«The writer's duty is to keep on writing»
«Tolerance is another word for indifference.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Tolerance,
Writing
| Keywords:
indifference, tolerance
«Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
clearly, commentator, obscurely, readers, write
«The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice»
«The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.»
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