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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to… — Elizabeth Bowen
I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a… — Raymond Chandler
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. — Ursula K. Le Guin
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. — W. Somerset Maugham
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't… — Eudora Welty
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence… — Toni Morrison
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. — William Shakespeare
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest. — Joe E. Lewis
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau
After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavours and from there it just blossomed. I have always had… — Angela Cartwright
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until… — Chase Jarvis
I was one of the only girls in my high school that didn't get a nose job. And if anybody needed it, I probably did.… — Lea Michele
It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and a bunch of… — Lena Dunham
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting… — Mary Ellen Mark
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated. — Lewis Hine
I am not a sample size, and I am okay with that. I'm good with who I am. I like to accentuate the positive. My… — Jordin Sparks
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business. — Michel Patini
We don't want to tell our dreams. We want to show them — Cristiano Ronaldo
The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now… — Unknown Author
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. — Wanda Landowska
Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All… — Unknown Author
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my… — Mahatma Gandhi
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no… — Mahatma Gandhi

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