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Letter "W" » Writing
«Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue»
Author: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
Art a, authorship, handicraft, handicrafts, infancy, pastime, pursued
«A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| About:
Mind,
Writing
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divinely, mediocre, reasonably, thinks, writes
«But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately conditioned by all his past itching and twitching, and by all his past theorizing about them.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
conditioned, itch, itching, theorize, theorizing, twitch, twitches, twitching
«Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.»
«A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.»
«A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.»
Author: Samuel McChord Crothers
| About:
Poetry,
Prose,
Writing
| Keywords:
capital letter, On Writing, prose
«A home without books is a body without soul.»
«A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fiction,
Truth,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
fiction, fictions, fiction writer, To Tell the Truth, unable, writer, writes
«Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.»
«Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.»
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