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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce
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James Joyce
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Feb 2
,
1882
Died:
Jan 13
,
1941
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,
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,
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,
Previous
,
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,
Sins
,
Committed
,
Public
,
Explains
,
Ingenious
,
Reason
,
English
,
Why
,
Ever
,
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Benjamin Franklin
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Education
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Training
World
Animals
Feelings
Reading
Other
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Our
Earth
Would
Would-Be
Fact
Part
Empathize
Empathy
Arithmetic
How
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein
Writing
Something
Private
Hands
Afterwards
Ashamed
Your
Wash
Necessarily
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
Stephanie Zimbalist
Time
You
Writing
Think
Mentally
Puzzle
Like
Makes
Stimulating
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
Man
Writing
Reading
Exact
Maketh
Ready
Conference
Full
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
Steve Martin
Day
Me
You
Writing
Editing
Light
Think
Later
See
Something
Only
Throw
Practicing
Always
Anyone
Decide
Whether
Meant
Meant To Be
Moment
Away
Ever
Publishing
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
Writing
Three
Rules
No-One
Knows
Unfortunately
Novel
I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.
Willie Geist
People
Writing
Once
Email
Pretty
Fad
Sure
Passes
Going
Again
Letters
Start
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'
Jose Rizal
Life
Work
Me
Generation
Writing
Will
Nighttime
Other
This Generation
Our
Books
Say
Would
Could
Write
Writings
Read
Understand
Am
Educated
Were
Hand
Burn
Which
Ages
Asleep
Grandparents
Whole
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