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Writing Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
- GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there…
- CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
- BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot…
- Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
- LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
- If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
- GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the…
- Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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