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"It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?" Matthew Clayfield 1.5625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." C.S. Lewis 4.769230769230769 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." C.S. Lewis 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'" C.S. Lewis 4.714285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." Napoleon Bonaparte 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Samuel Johnson 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls." John Donne 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short." Blaise Pascal 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy 4.647058823529412 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." T.S. Eliot 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it." Oscar Wilde 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." Frank Lloyd Wright 4.933333333333334 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." Martin Luther King Jr. 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations." C.S. Lewis 4.714285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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