An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. —Colleen Wainwright More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. —Carol Burnett More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. —Bobby Knight More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it. —Alison Headley More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. —Ralph W. Sockman More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest result of education is tolerance. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. —Helen Keller More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email