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Writing Quotes by Andre Gide
- Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
- It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
- If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
- Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene…
- Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say…
- The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
- What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
- Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write…
- Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could…
- The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to…
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