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«There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.»
«The desire to write grows with writing.»
«There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.»
Author: Joaquin Andujar
| About:
Sports,
Writing
| Keywords:
hundred thousand, sportswriters, three hundred
«The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.»
«The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
ghostlike, hover, hovered, hovers, plunged, plunges, plunging, Shadow of the, The Shadow
«The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.»
«There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.»
«There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
enormous, left hand, poorly, redundancy, right-handed, right hand, the left, well-written, work on
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Writing
| Keywords:
affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.»
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