"The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read,……" — Ernest Gaines
"The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write."
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52 Quotes by Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines has 52 quotes on this site.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there…
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I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What…
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Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect.…
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"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me…
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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
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We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to…
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Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in…
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn…
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I…
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We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
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I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's…
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More Golden Quotes
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years…
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of…
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back…
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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what…
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with…
— Alan Alda
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper…
— John Bunyan
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I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting…
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
— Samuel Butler
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
— Muhammad Ali
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
— George Washington Carver
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