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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston S. Churchill

Stichwörter: humor writing history

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: inspirational writing tyranny

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: reading writing

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stichwörter: style writing emphasis exclamation-points

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

Stichwörter: writing

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

Stichwörter: writing

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

Stichwörter: poetry writing prose

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

Stichwörter: humor writing criticism

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

Stichwörter: writing