A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount. — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
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I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
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YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged. — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
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To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may… — James Otis Copy Share Image
[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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