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It is
excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say
all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his
readers is sure to skip them.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
I am paid by
the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
-- Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British
Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
It is
necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.
How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the
moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is
gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores
over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the
hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.
Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
-- Vita Sackville-West
1892-1962, British Novelist,
Poet
Writing is a
question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the
rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic
progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that
life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
-- Francoise Sagan
1935-, French Novelist,
Playwright
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The trade of
authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
-- George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist
Writing is to
descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp
on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies
everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion,
whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and
corrodes your eyes.
-- Blaise Cendrars Sauser
When an author
is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his
mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
-- Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D.,
Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
The man who
writes about himself and his own time is the only man who
writes about all people and about all time.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
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