All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Henry Ward Beecher
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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Anonymous
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
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Alexander Trocchi
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
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Joseph Bruchac
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Gertrude Stein
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as welldance.
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a...
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
