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Quote by Gene Fowler

“Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.”

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Gene Fowler, an American journalist, was born on March 8, 1890, and died on July 2, 1960. He is known for his in-depth reporting on Hollywood and his unique insights into the film production process. more

“The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.”

“Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.”

“Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice.”

Ifs Writing Might Voice Agree Conclusion

Book:A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing

Source: A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing

“But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”

Should Writing Facts Hate Fiction Talent Pure I Hate Foundation Invention Liars Fabric Airy

Author:Lord Byron

“One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.”

Ifs World Writing Easy

Author:William Goldman

“By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.”

“So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.”

Writing Shows Difficult Various Imperfection

Book:The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

“There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.”

Writing Trying Firsts Moving Bits Paper Satisfaction Sentences Arranging

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I write what I would like to read.”

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Author:Kathleen Norris

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