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Writing Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
- One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
- I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
- Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it…
- I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my…
- If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at…
- I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
- It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
- In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
- Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
- All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
- Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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