“ QUOTES ”Writing

All books are either dreams or swords.“ ”

Amy Lowell

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

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Walter Bageholt

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

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Robert Newton Peck

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.“ ”

Ernest Hemingway

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

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Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.

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”Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

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”Francis Bacon

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

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” Samuel Johnson

A plot is two dogs and a bone.“ ”

Robert Newton Peck

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

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W. H. Auden

“The king died and the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot.

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”E.M. Forster

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

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Orson Scott Card

Writing is a struggle against silence.“

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Carlos Fuents

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head.

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From the movie Finding Forrester

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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”Russell Lynes

Tragedy is not the conflict between good and evil; it is the conflict between good and good.

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”Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. “ ”

Chinese Proverb

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

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” Paul Englr

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second street and Fifth Avenue .

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”Joseph Campbell

Strictly considered, modern advertising seeks to promote not so much self-indulgence as self-doubt. It seeks to create needs, not to fulfill them; to generate new anxieties instead of allaying old ones.

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” Christopher Lasch

Write from abundance. “ ”

Donald Murray

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said..., of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

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”Susan Sontag

In an art form like film-making, we know that editing and revising cannot be dismissed as superfluous, for they are an integral part of the whole process. In fact, what we eventually see on the screen is not what was filmed, but what was edited.

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”William Irmscher

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

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”Ray Bradbury

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

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Winston Churchill