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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.
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.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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.
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the read more
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
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).
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...
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.
