Browsing Quotes With Tag: writing (28)
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I can’t a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Speaker: Walter RaleighPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy effective delivery with the tongue. Where their purpose is merely to entertain, not to instruct, they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized, and turned into the common form of unpremeditated talk; otherwise they will bore the house – not entertain it.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If a speech is to be of any importance at all, the speaker should live with the theme or message, turning it over and over in his mind. He will be surprised at how many useful illustrations or ways of putting his case will come to him as he walks the street, or reads a newspaper, or gets ready for bed, or wakes up in the morning. Mediocre speaking very often is merely the inevitable and the appropriate reflection of mediocre thinking, and the consequence of imperfect acquaintance with the subject at hand.
Speaker: Norman ThomasPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Brood over your topic until it becomes mellow and expansive… then put all these ideas down in writing, just a few words, enough to fix the idea… put them down on scraps of paper – you will find it easier to arrange and organize these loose bits when you come to set your material in order.
Speaker: Charles Reynold BrownPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nowadays even if you could write a prose like Traherne’s, you wouldn’t be allowed to, for the canon of ‘functionalism’ had disabled literature for half its functions.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the reasons I remember those early Bombay months so well is that, whenever I was alone, I wrote about those new friends and the conversations we shared. And writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You writers must pick a subject that suits your powers, giving lengthy thought to what your shoulders are built for and what they aren’t. If your choice of theme is within your scope, you won’t have to seek for fluent speech or lucid arrangement.
Arrangement’s virtue and value reside, if I’m not mistaken, in this: to say right now what has to be said right now, postponing and leaving out a great deal for the present.Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!