Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
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