"bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it"

-- Charles Bukowski

#Writing Quotes

“Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.”
“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
“Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.”

Source : C. J. Cherryh (1996). “Invader: Book Two of Foreigner”, p.32, Penguin
“To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.”
“I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.”
“Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.”
“Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.”

Source : Proceedings of the 20th National Conference of the Association of Computing Machinery (1965)
“Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.”

Source : "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.

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