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Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
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Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
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O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
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Of all arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
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Of so much force are system and connection. [Lat., Tantum series juncturaque pollet.]
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
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Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
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One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan, or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
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Our writings are so many dishes, our readers guests, our books like beauty; that which one admires another rejects; so are we approved as men’s fancies are inclined.
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Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
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People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
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Perhaps the greatest lession which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a simgle world: Wait!
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
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