Why do writers write? What advice can they offer us on the art of writing? The quotes of writers from ancient times up to the present can teach us a lot about writing.
Bill Gates: 92 quotes36 likes All Trending People24 Doing19 Likeness16 Thing15 Software13 Way11 Famous Bill Gates Quotes “Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard"...
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy." "But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."...
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, ... Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems) THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom ...
``By the starlight, naming a dubious name! ``And if, too heavy with sleep---too rash ``With fear---O Thou, if that martyr-gash ``Fell on Thee coming to take thine own, ``And we gave the Cross, when we owed the Throne--- ...
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shed A dubious light on every upturned head; On locks like those of Absalom the fair, On the bald apex ringed with scanty hair, On blank indifference and on curious stare; On the pale Showman reading from his stage ...