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“Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.”

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Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans

“I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.”

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Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.”

Men Writing Hands Quality Fairs Accomplishment Practise

Book:Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...

Source: Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Firsts Children Book Quality Written Pages Blank

Author:Walt Disney

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”

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Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.”

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Author:Christopher Isherwood

“Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.”

Writing Trying Night Quality Concerned Insomniac

Author:Elliot Perlman

“Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.”

Should Writing Art Ends Song Dark Results Quality Mysterious Songwriting End Results

Author:Martin Gore

“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.”

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Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir