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Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, read more
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, read more
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; read more
To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
My occupation is solely that of a painter.
No one can argue with pictures
(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).
My occupation is solely that of a painter.
No one can argue with pictures
(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to read more
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
