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Talent
alone cannot make a writer.
There must be a man behind the book.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
One
man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
Think
much, speak little, and write less.
Italian Proverb
The
secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace
The
ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of
the martyr.
Mohammed
To
write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render
well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and
taste.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Superlatives
are diminutives, and weaken.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A
man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
What
a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master
of thought, who breaks into beauty, as in summer the
meadow into grass and dandelions and violets.
Theodore Parker
It
makes little difference how many university degrees
or courses a person may own. If he cannot use words
to move an idea from one point to another, his education
is incomplete.
Norman Cousins
But
words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
In
good writing, words become one with things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once
the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can
scratch it but a pen.
Samuel Lover
If
you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus
To
write without clarity or charm is a miserable waste
of time and ink.
Cicero
A
collection of good sentences resembles a string of pearls.
Chinese Proverb
Beneath
the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Successful
writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to
be intelligently simple.
Josh Billings
If
a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach
other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount
to that.
Thomas Carlyle
Proper
words in proper places make the true definition of a
style.
Jonathan Swift
Whatever
sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure
was thought twice.
Henry David Thoreau
You
don't write because you want to say something;
you write because you've got something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We
never know how much has been missing from our lives
until a true writer comes along.
Alfred Kazin
Reading
maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing
an exact man.
Lord Bacon
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