Alexander Pope

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”

~ Alexander Pope

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Mark Twain on the Right Word

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

~ Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

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Hannah Arendt on the Closeness of Poetry and Thought

“Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.”

~ Hannah Arendt

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Maya Angelou on Being Remembered

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Douglas Adams on Deadlines

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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Charles Baudelaire on Poetry and Prose

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

~ Charles Baudelaire

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J. Michael Straczynski on Immortality

“Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words–the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.”
~ J. Michael Straczynski
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E.L. Doctorow on the Insanity of Writing

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
~ E.L. Doctorow

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Roger Zelazny on Ideas

“One of my standard — and fairly true — responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.”
~ Roger Zelazny
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Ernest Hemingway on Easy Writing

Easy writing makes hard reading.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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