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Writing

«The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.»
«The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.»
«The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.»
Author: Elias Canetti (Novelist, Playwright) | About: Writing | Keywords: notation, notations
«The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people»
«The pen is the tongue of the mind.»
«The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.»
«The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything»
Author: Walter Bagehot (Analyst, Economist, Editor) | About: Books, Writing | Keywords: books, written
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
«The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.»
«The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Writing | Keywords: expressing