Making Quotes

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The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… — Bill Bryson
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing… — Jeffrey Carver
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss… — Lewis Carroll
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to… — Percy Lubbock
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor… — Lord Acton
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,… — Flannery O'Connor
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree. — Jorge Valdano
It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing… — Chase Jarvis
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application… — Elliott Erwitt
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the… — Aaron Siskind
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain.… — Galen Rowell
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does… — Elliott Erwitt
I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet,… — Kelly Brook
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change… — Aaron Siskind
...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it.… — Imogen Cunningham

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