Quotes 141 till 160 of 177.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
General Aspects of Dream Psychology (1928) -
Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.Auguries of Innocence -
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Today in bloom, tomorrow as afallen petals, like a delicate flower, life is.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
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What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
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