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Writing

«The more we write the less we die.»
«The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.»
Author: Edwin Schlossberg (Designer) | About: Writing
«Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.»
«That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Writing | Keywords: reader
«The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Writing
«Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.»
«Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.»
«There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Grammar, Writers, Writing
«The true poem rests between the words.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Poems, Poetry, Poets, Words, Writing
«The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.»