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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." Napoleon Bonaparte 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man." E.B. White 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Robert Frost 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." Fran Lebowitz 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." Stephen King 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention." Ernest Hemingway 5 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
"Journalism is literature in a hurry." Matthew Arnold 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 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
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Dorothy Parker 4.9411764705882355 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
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." Gustave Flaubert 4.875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries." Stephen King 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." Ernest Hemingway 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press." Mark Twain 4.833333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'" Stephen King 4.777777777777778 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
"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
"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


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