People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
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If you don?t have a six figure deal by the time you?re thirty five, you?ve failed. In fact, why even be a writer?
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[I]t is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of pap
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Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful.
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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting.. I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body
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The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian.. Is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generatio
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A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself... What am I trying to say? What words will express it?.. And he probably asks himself... Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shi
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Mr Wells [?]belongs to the non military middle class. The thunder of guns, the jingle of spurs, the catch in the throat when the old flag goes by, leave him manifestly cold. He has an invincible hatred of the fighting, hunting, swash buckling side of life
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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
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?If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.?
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
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Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated?
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There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.
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Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
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How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
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All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis.
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