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  • How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Past Quotes
  • In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Agony Quotes
  • Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Style Quotes