“ It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ”
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“ Girls usually have a paper mache face on their wedding day. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. ”
- Beryl Pfizer- Copy
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“ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. ”
- Steve Martin- Copy
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“ Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. ”
- Nicolas Boileau- Copy
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“ I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. ”
- Michael Jackson- Copy
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“ All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”
- Barrett Wendell- Copy
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“ I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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“ It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ”
- Kingman Brewster- Copy
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“ As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd stay away. ”
- Hughes Mearns- Copy
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“ Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further. ”
- Malcolm Lowry- Copy
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“ There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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