Anthony Trollope Quotes
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.Anthony Trollope
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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.
Edmund White -
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
P. J. Harvey -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine -
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards -
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.
Victor LaValle -
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson -
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer -
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.
Barry Hannah
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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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
Irwin Shaw -
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Balthazar Getty -
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.
Karen Traviss -
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.
Albert Camus -
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno
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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.
John Ruskin -
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
Daniel Akaka -
In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
Taylor Spreitler -
Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
Gail Z. Martin -
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope