 | "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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| "I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
- Blaise Pascal
, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657. |
| "All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."
- Bobby Knight
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| "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
- Charles Caleb Colton
, Lacon, 1820. |
| "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
- Charles de Montesquieu
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| "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
- Cyril Connolly
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| Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
- Daphne du Maurier
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| "Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, Richelieu. |
| "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
- Edwin Schlossberg
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| Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
, 'A Woman of Independent Means'. |