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- "There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives? And who sent it here in the first place? It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms."
By: Phillip K. Dick Write Quotes
- "He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
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- "Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting."
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- "Writing only leads to more writing."
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- "If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did."
By: Jerry Coleman Write Quotes
- "It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."
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- "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
By: Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Write Quotes
- "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him."
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- "A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one."
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- "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
By: Truman Capote Write Quotes
- "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
By: Samuel Butler Write Quotes
- "If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand."
By: J. F. Boyse Write Quotes
- "I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true."
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- "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked."
By: Harold Bloom Write Quotes
- "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."
By: Thomas Berger Write Quotes
- "Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood."
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