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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind – the humorous. Mark Twain
The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first. Pascal
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W.H Auden
Writing at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. Ernest Hemingway
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. Horace
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. William Wordsworth
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. Andre Gide
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. Alfred North Whitehead
What is so wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse. E. M. Forster
If you once understand an author’s character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Longfellow
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. Robert Louis Stevenson
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. John Locke
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired. Samuel Johnson
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep the real and the true. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one. Thomas Carlyle
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind – the humorous. Mark Twain
The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first. Pascal
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W.H Auden
Writing at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. Ernest Hemingway
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. Horace
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. William Wordsworth
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. Andre Gide
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. Alfred North Whitehead
What is so wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse. E. M. Forster
If you once understand an author’s character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Longfellow
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. Robert Louis Stevenson
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. John Locke
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired. Samuel Johnson
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep the real and the true. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one. Thomas Carlyle