Edward Bulwer-Lytton on writing

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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