Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving... — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
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