Quotes with non-writing-joke

Quotes 341 till 360 of 602.

  • Edna Ferber Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Barney Frank Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse People always say: You're a comedian, tell us a joke. They don't say: You're an MP, tell us a lie.
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    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Andy Hertzfeld People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • C. K. Williams Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • George Orwell Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Terry Eagleton Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Elizabeth Drew Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Carol Berg Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Francis Bacon Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Okri Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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