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Letter "P" » piece of writing
«Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble»
«Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.»
Author: Claud Cockburn
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disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, married couple, papers, piece of writing, ruining, writing style
«I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.»
Author: Harold Ross
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
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Lardner, phrases, piece of paper, piece of writing, Ring Lardner, separated, short stories, short story, Short words, spaces, The short story, widely
«Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.»
Author: Rumer Godden
| About:
Writing
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grit, grits, gritted, gritting, happening, lodges, lodging, of sound mind, pass away, piece of writing, Sight and Sound
«He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were signed at both ends.»
«Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, bleeds, easy, forehead, paper, piece, Piece By Piece, piece of writing, stare, stares, writing, writing paper
«Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, counseling, edit, edited, editing, editor, piece of writing, tendency, writing style
«I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep, I wrote in the dark»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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In The Dark, paper, piece, piece of paper, piece of writing, pillow, pillows, put to sleep, sleep, The Dark, writing paper, wrote
«One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold»
«Maybe it?s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It?s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I?d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Research,
Writing
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Bright Future, colored, colorless, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, notebook, notebooks, ordered, pebbles, piece of work, piece of writing, pin, pin down, pockets, sparkle, sparkling, washed
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