Anthony Trollope Quotes
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I'm not a great writer.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.
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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
