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"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"Letters are like wine; if they are sound, they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"The pen is the tongue of the mind"
Horace, Poet
"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement"
Horace, Poet
"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing"
Horace, Poet
"But the shortest works are always the best"
Jean de La Fontaine, Poet
"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"When I stop working, the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it, three minutes; to collect the data in it, all my life"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence"
George Eliot, Author
"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words"
George Eliot, Author
"Excessive literary production is a social offense"
George Eliot, Author
"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, to get the book written"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid"
William Faulkner, Novelist
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