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Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1948Philosophical literature2 quotes
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno · 1951When we see a natural style, we are quite surprised and delighted, for we expected to see an author and we find a man. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Children's literature1 quote
Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it." — A.A. Milne · 1926Political literature1 quote
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. — George Orwell · 1946Travel writing1 quote
A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. — Henry David Thoreau · 1849