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Letter "O" » On Writing
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«I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?»
Author: Bette Greene
(Author, Writer)
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Funny
| Keywords:
hooked, Mean Business, On Writing, sticking
«Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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Miracles
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«I don't like to write, but I love to have written»
Author: Michael Kanin
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
like, On Writing, To be written, write, write of, write out, written
«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
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
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«I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again.»
«I feel I cannot touch humanity, even in thought, it is abhorrent to me. But a work of art is an act of faith, as Michael Angelo says, and one goes on writing, to the unseen witnesses.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abhorrent, Michael, Michael Angelo, On Writing, The Unseen, unseen, witnesses, work of art
«He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.»
«He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Character,
Confidence,
Courage,
Life,
Poets,
Risk,
Writers
| Keywords:
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«Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography»
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