Anthony Trollope Quotes
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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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 imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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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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Steiner goes further than this - and this is his own central contribution to modern thought. He states that once we have made a habit of remembering Mozart and the stars, we shall find ourselves developing powers of 'spiritual vision.' We shall never again feel ourselves to be helpless victims of the external world.
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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
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A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
