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Letter "W" » Writers
«Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.»
«Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.»
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
«Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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authenticity, bother, confuse, originality
«Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.»
Author: William G. Golding
(Novelist, Poet)
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carpentry, Novelists, On the Level, push, routine, The Job
«Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.»
Author: Wolcott Gibbs
(Writer)
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barns, cliche, cliches, had better, obviously, removed, undoubtedly
«People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.»
«Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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All That, blood, blooded, has, His, On Writing, own, person, that is, To be written, write of, write out, written
«That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.»
«Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.»
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