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Writer Quotes about writing from famous
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Commentary © 2007-2008 Bonnett Chandler & Richard Chandler
A surprisingly useful tip on writing from a journalist, author of short stories and editor of Vogue and Glamour Magazine…
“If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything that you seriously believe.”
- Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983)
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A good tip from the winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize winner for literature for his writings on British and world history…
“I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965
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From Andre Gide, the prolific writer who was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in literature…
“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require they be approached on an angle.”
From the French Renaissance writer who popularized the essay as a literary genre…
“No wind favors him who has no destined port.”
- Michel De Montaigne (1533-1692)
Sometimes it is safer to go along with the crowd…
The story was told that after a premiere performance of Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man,” the playwrite was asked to take a bow. While in the midst of bowing to enthusiastic applause, an audience member from the balcony yelled, “Come, come, Shaw, you know all this stuff is balderdash.” Bernard Shaw looked towards the person and in a friendly voice exclaimed, “I quite agree with you, my friend, but who are you and I against so many?”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Writing for the edification of future generations?
“What an author likes to write most is the signature on the back of a check.”
From a book review by Abraham Lincoln…
“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing that they like.”
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Serving up proper portions in book criticism…
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
- Kurt Vonnegut ( 1922-2007)
What follows here is a secret of writing success...
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
President Lincoln comments on the work of a fellow attorney
"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
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