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Letter "W" » Writing
«If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average»
«If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.»
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Writing
| Keywords:
barriers, formidable, pleases, raises, woe
«If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Writing
| Keywords:
kills, pretend, write down
«In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
desk, desks, fresh, fresher, freshest, his pen, lying in wait, mood, paper, pen, penned, ream, take up, the next, writer, writing desk, writing paper
«Inspiration always arrives unannounced.»
«If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
breathe, breathe in, breathe out, breathing in, breathing out, cry, cry out, culture, in writing, out in, sing, Their culture, use, write, writing
«If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write»
«In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin»
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