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«The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.»
Author: Howard Nemerov
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«Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.»
Author: Jessamyn West
(Writer)
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Talent,
Writing
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«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.»
«The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
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adjustment, adolescent, adolescents, break loose, breathing, Feel the Need, in writing, maladjusted, resolving
«No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.»
Author: Booker T. Washington
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dignity, field, in writing, learns, poem, prosper, prospers, tilling
«Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, / Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.»
«That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
durable, in writing, resembles, written record
«Method is not less requisite in conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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in writing, method, provided, requisite, requisites, talk to
«My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age.»
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