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Quotes about writers and writing
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. (Combs Jeffrey)
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. (Combs Jeffrey)
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. (Combs Jeffrey)
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. (Combs Jeffrey)
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. (Combs Jeffrey)
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. (Combs Jeffrey)
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. (Combs Jeffrey)
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform. (Combs Jeffrey)
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. (Combs Jeffrey)
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. (Combs Jeffrey)
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. (Combs Jeffrey)
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years. (Combs Jeffrey)
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. (Combs Jeffrey)
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. (Combs Jeffrey)
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. (Combs Jeffrey)
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. (Combs Jeffrey)
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. (Combs Jeffrey)
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text (Combs Jeffrey)
Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. (Combs Jeffrey)
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. (Combs Jeffrey)
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. (Combs Jeffrey)
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. (Combs Jeffrey)
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. (Combs Jeffrey)
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many. (Combs Jeffrey)
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. (Combs Jeffrey)
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