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“I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.”

Writing Looks Water Worry Written Trouble Sky Paper Mark Adversity Down And Blow Beach Sand Tides Shells Yards Fragments Vaults Kneeling

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.”

Looks Written Trouble Adversity Sand Tides

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.”

May Sound Pleasure Written Trouble Poet Blessed Manage Poetry Is Blessed Are Those

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.”

Feels Writing Trying May Book Ideas Common Written Trouble Worst Cost Remains Presses No Idea Alas Correcting

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843

“Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Persons Matter Able Language Easy Natural Written Trouble Letters Regard Grammar

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.”

Kind Written Trouble All Kinds Plenty

Book:All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

“I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.”

Want Book Term Fiction Fantasy Written Trouble Mystery Hero Horror Originals Traditional Thrillers Pulp Love To Read

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.”

Ifs Trying Stories Turns Written Trouble Argument

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels I Can Two Ideas Character Three Can Do Know How Written Trouble Comfortable Jokes Improvising Trapeze

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood”

Thinking Term Written Trouble Blood Direct Response Selling Agency

Author:David Ogilvy

“Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.”

Doe Two Helping Inspiration Wanted Lying Fiction Novel Written Trouble Brother Thirds Contemporary Brothers And Sisters Contemporary Fiction Sofas Muttering Salinger

Author:K. M. Soehnlein