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G.K. Chesterton
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
topics: books , writing  
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C.S. Lewis
You can make anything by writing.
topics: writing  
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Blaise Pascal
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( , 1657)
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Martin Luther
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
topics: change , impact , writing  
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C.S. Lewis
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
topics: writing  
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C.S. Lewis
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
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Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
topics: words , writing  
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Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
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C.S. Lewis
In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me." [ , 26 June 1956]
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Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
topics: reading , writing  
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Helen Keller
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
topics: writing  
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Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
topics: writing  
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C.S. Lewis
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
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G.K. Chesterton
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
topics: author , writer , writing  
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C.S. Lewis
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
topics: writing  
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G.K. Chesterton
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
topics: modernism , writing  
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Francis Bacon
To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to death trying to instruct or entertain a public which will only despise one's efforts, or at least feel no gratitude for them.
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C.S. Lewis
I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by that than by any direct apologetic work…. We can make people often attend to the Christian point of view for half an hour or so; but the moment they have gone away from our lecture or laid down our article, they are plunged back into a world where the opposite position is taken for granted…. What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects—with their Christianity latent. You can see this most easily if you look at it the other way around. Our faith is not very likely to be shaken by any book on Hinduism. But if whenever we read an elementary book on Geology, Botany, Politics, or Astronomy, we found that its implications were Hindu, that would shake us. It is not the books written in direct defense of Materialism that make the modern man a materialist; it is the materialistic assumptions in all the other books. In the same way, it is not books on Christianity that will really trouble him. But he would be troubled if, whenever he wanted a cheap popular introduction to some science, the best work on the market was always by a Christian.
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Blaise Pascal
Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.
topics: writing  
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C.S. Lewis
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
topics: writing  
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