English Writing Quotes
The best sayings about English Writing that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.
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The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.
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I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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