#writes

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#because #cannot #i #i write #loves

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God. ↗

— Leslie Ludy

#leslie-ludy #when-god-writes-your-love-story #love

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#bombay #gal #got #hasn #her

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me. ↗

— Victor Ponta

#me #negative #press #see #should

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. ↗

— Dario Argento

#every #extent #himself #some #writer

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. ↗

— Uma Thurman

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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#cause #economical #everything #lazy #myself