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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965
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- Journalism
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Reading
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Playboy Magazine
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Preface to The Great Crusade (1940) by Gustav Regler
There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen Kingborn 1947It (1986)
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (5 April 1776) p. 302
When I’m writing, I know I’m doing the thing I was born to do.
Anne Sexton1928–1974
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
Napoleon1769–1821
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950
As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.
Richard Nixon1913–1994
- Journalism
I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’
Saul Bellow1915–2005
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832