| A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. -- John Roux |
| Author:
Roux, JohnEra:
1886 |
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| Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| The pen is the tongue of the mind. -- Cervantes |
| Author:
CervantesEra:
1547 |
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| I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. -- Donald R. Marquis |
| Author:
Marquis, Donald R.Era:
1878 |
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| The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. -- Colette |
| Author:
ColetteEra:
1873 |
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| In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. -- Will Rogers |
| Author:
Rogers, WillEra:
1879 |
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| Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. -- Cyril Connolly |
| Author:
Connolly, CyrilEra:
1903 |
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| The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| Syllables govern the world. -- John Selden |
| Author:
Selden, JohnEra:
1584 |
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