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"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'" Saul Bellow 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true." Dorothy Parker 3.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." Mark Twain 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions." James Michener 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
"I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter." Marcel Proust 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation." James Michener 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains." James Michener 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." Stephen King 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.25 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
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." Andrew Jackson 4.181818181818182 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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
"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
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter." James Michener 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Journalism is literature in a hurry." Matthew Arnold 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." GK Chesterton 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose." Oscar Wilde 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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