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Writing Quotes by John Ruskin
- We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared…
- The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as…
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
- In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end…
- Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
- Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible…
- To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught…
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests.…
More Writing Quotes
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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