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Chapter 15
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Max, I like this chapter but instead of commenting on your work, I collected a couple of relevant quotes on writing and the writing process from people who are much more worthy than I to judge such things. Maybe even one of them will be relevant to your work. Enjoy
I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it.
----Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.
----Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
---Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
----Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), "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 (1940 - )
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
----C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
----C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
----Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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 (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
----Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
----Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
-----Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
----David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
----Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
----Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Richelieu
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
----Edwin Schlossberg
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
----Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
----George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
----George Burns (1896 - 1996)
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
----George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
----H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Just a sampling
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