Kit Reed famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.
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Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
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I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
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I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.
-- Kit Reed
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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