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Writing is not
like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the
canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a
sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make
the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow
remain.
-- Elie Wiesel
1928-, Rumanian-born American
Writer
This morning I
took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
From the point
of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his
aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter
who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
His style is
chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has
mastered everything except language.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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The future
author is one who discovers that language, the exploration
and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve
him in winning through to his way.
-- Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist,
Playwright
Every secret
of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every
quality of his mind is written large in his works.
-- Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist,
Essayist
I was in a
queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman
again -- as I always am when I write.
-- Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist,
Essayist
We are
nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing
in the eternity of print.
-- Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist,
Essayist
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