"An essential element for good writing is a……" — Barbara Tuchman
"An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose."
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Barbara Tuchman
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68 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman has 68 quotes on this site.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy…
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard,…
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose…
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory…
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material,…
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
— Mary J. Blige
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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it…
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