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Writing Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and…
- You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
- It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov