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Quote by Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“In a good play, everyone is in the right.”

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Christian Friedrich Hebbel was a German poet born on March 18, 1813, and died on December 13, 1863. His poetry works hold an important place in the history of German literature, known for their profound emotions and critical social views. more

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”

Ifs Knows Writing May Doe Enough Feelings Water Movement Reader Dignity Dues Prose Hollow Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.”

Writing Mind Persons Sellers Best Sellers

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.”

People Needs Writing Whole Inspiration Fiction Environment Bases Series

Book:Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

Source: Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.”

World Writing Littles Made Light Fall Universe Members Shining Mere Forgotten Immortality Considering Doomed Transient Meteors

Book:Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra

Source: Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra

“Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.”

Writing Silence Dangerous Abuse

Book:The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

“It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.”

Ifs Should Writing Wells Book Ends Fall Rooms Fame Writing A Book Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Shuttlecock

Book:Johnsonian miscellanies

Source: Johnsonian miscellanies

“...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.”

Writing Happens Poet Labor

Book:Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes

Source: Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes

“Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.”

Writing Faults

Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“I am a part of all I have read.”

Writing

Author:John F. Kieran

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