Line Quotes

4563 Line quotes by 3228 unique authors

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's… — Patricia Lee Gauch
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word… — W. P. Kinsella
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of… — John Steinbeck
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
Because you're mine, I walk the line. — Johnny Cash
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views… — Doris Lessing
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from… — John Szarkowski
There's such a fine line between defeat and losing. — Gary Newbon
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure… — Thomas Browne
Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just… — J M Coetzee
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for… — Frances E. Willard
In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even… — Mario Andretti

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