Loses Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loses Purpose Writing
In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality,… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
“The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — Joseph Joffre Copy Share Image
You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but… — Lamar Odom Copy Share Image
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
