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Writing Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
- Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
- You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
- My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School…
- If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
- Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
- You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
- Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
- Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
- I do not know what I think until I write it.
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