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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on read more
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; read more
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.