Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963) | I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. | |
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) | If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. | |
Bobby Knight | All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. | |
Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974) | Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. | |
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. | |
Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart | The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. | |
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. | |
James Michener | Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you. | |
Robert A. Heinlein | Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. | |
Thomas Mann | A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. |
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