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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
― Lord Byron
Writing
Ears
Way
Fretful
Scribbler
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
― Lord Byron
Dream
Writing
Play
Publish
Drink
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous. —Robert Benchley
Positive Quotes For Students
Fifteen
Discover
Writing
Live it up so you can write it down.
― Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Ernest Hemingway
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
― Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Humility
Crafts
Ernest Hemingway
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
― Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Night
Nails
Ernest Hemingway
In order to write about life first you must live it.
― Ernest Hemingway
Life
Writing
Order
Ernest Hemingway
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Writing
Thoughtful
Reality
Edgar Allan Poe
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
― Albert Einstein
Book
Reading
Writing
Albert Einstein
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
― Louisa May Alcott
Beautiful
Flower
Writing
Louisa May Alcott
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
― Louisa May Alcott
Book
Writing
Thinking
Louisa May Alcott
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
― William Penn
Writing
William Penn
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
― William S. Burroughs
Art
Writing
Mean
William S. Burroughs
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Mistake
Writing
Errors
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Writing
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
― Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
Retirement
Writing
Age
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
― William Shakespeare
Writing
Evil
Water
William Shakespeare
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
― Lord Byron
Writing
Mad
Mind
Lord Byron
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
― Susan B. Anthony
Writing
Reflection
Men
Susan B. Anthony
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
― Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Writing
People
Negative
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