Henri de Regnier famous quotes

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  • My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  • Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

  • 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.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  • Chess is a beautiful mistress.

  • You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

  • There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

  • Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  • Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.