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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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...
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.
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.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or read more
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.
Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor
on the blank page
(Regina Brett has written regular columns for 2 read more
Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor
on the blank page
(Regina Brett has written regular columns for 2 Ohio papers).
