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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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
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
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches
When you say, 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say, 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
Linus Torvalds
The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.
Gene Wolfe
I'm more of a seat of my pants, heat of the moment kind of person, which lends itself well to hosting and acting, but not necessarily going, "Oh, what is my shot list? That's right, I needed to work on a shot list."
Zachary Levi
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Anthony Trollope
