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“Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.”

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James Fitzjames Stephen, born on March 3, 1829, and died on March 11, 1894, was a prominent British judge known for his contributions to the legal field. more

“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.”

Writing Long Enough Seeing Ordinary Blame Extraordinary Marvelous Journal Scratches Remarks Commonplace

Book:Conversations with Saul Bellow

Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow

“In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.”

“Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!”

Said Three Five Journalist They Said Chords

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.”

Want Writing Used Causes Skills Speech Confusion Speakers Indispensable Obscurity Pithy

Author:Bergen Evans

“Writing is my vacation from living.”

Writing Vacation

Book:The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays

Source: The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays

“This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.”

Writing Made Morning Hell Bounds Made It Afternoon One Word Hyphens

Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson

“Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.”

People Ifs Writing Use Kids Secret Type Method Pens Toes

Author:Sinclair Lewis

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