Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J. B. Priestley
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. — Irwin Shaw
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. — John Dos Passos
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than… — James Surowiecki
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. — E. V. Lucas
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain… — M.C. Escher
In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth. — Vladimir Lenin
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors. — Benjamin Whichcote
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike… — Helena Christensen
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. — Dorothea Lange
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the… — Ralph Gibson
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the… — William Albert Allard
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very… — Jose Raul Capablanca
You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness… — Alexander Kotov
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. — William Ewart Napier
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only… — Minor White
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail… — Ansel Adams

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