Quotes of Essay - somelinesforyou

“ Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. ”

- Gene Fowler

“ It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ”

- Sholem Asch

“ Girls usually have a paper mache face on their wedding day. ”

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“ Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years. ”

- Horace

“ I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ Learn to write well, or not to write at all. ”

- John Dryden

“ I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. ”

- Beryl Pfizer

“ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. ”

- Steve Martin

“ Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. ”

- Nicolas Boileau

“ I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. ”

- Michael Jackson

“ All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”

- Barrett Wendell

“ I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ”

- Kingman Brewster

“ As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd stay away. ”

- Hughes Mearns

“ Remarks are not literature. ”

- Gertrude Stein

“ Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Fascism is not an article for export. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further. ”

- Malcolm Lowry

“ There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ All good writing leaves something unexpressed. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ”

- Jorge Luis Borges
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