Archive for the ‘Quotations’ Category
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
"Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it...and delete it before sending your manuscript to the press."
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."
~ John Ruskin
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
~ Samuel Johnson
Instead of marvelling with Johnson, how anything but profit should incite men to literary labour, I am rather surprised that mere emolument should induce them to labour so well.
~ Thomas Green
Almost anyone can be an author; the business ...
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