Hilaire Belloc Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, People

• Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

  Hilaire Belloc

  Writing, Army, Blow

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1447, Delphi Classics

• I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Writing, Dull

• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

• If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Writing, Way, Language

  Hilaire Belloc (1967). “On”

• Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

• Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Writing, Empty, Worst

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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