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Quote by Mark Helprin

“In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.”

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Mark Helprin is an American novelist born on June 28, 1947. His works are known for their rich imagination, profound philosophical insights, and unique narrative style. more

“The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.”

Way Trying Mind Important Ideas Use Influence Effects Objects Magician Distortion Old Ideas Falsity

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.”

Looks Play Virtue Seeing Mines Faults Productions Tendencies

Book:Four Plays

Source: Four Plays

“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.”

“Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.”

Hands Fiction Fire Swamps

Author:Joy Kogawa

“The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.”

Thinking Looks Book Advice Offers Down And

Author:Michael Korda

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