Wells Quotes - Page 36

• I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Loss, Literature

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• Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

  Stephen King

  Art, Writing, Crafts

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

  Gerald Brenan

  Writing, Somewhere Else, Pages

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• A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

  Harlan Ellison

  Meaningful, Writing, Reality

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• The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Advice, Consuming

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• Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

  Jocko Henderson

  Lying, Believe, Writing

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• You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

  Tracy Kidder

  Writing, Enough, Interest

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• I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, People, Use

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.64, Macmillan

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• He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Writing, Men

  'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

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• Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Language, Partners

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.111, SIU Press

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• Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

  Jonathan Swift

  Conceited, Well Said, Ifs

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

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• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Procrastination, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.

  Bear Grylls

  Jobs, Procrastination, Done

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• When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Talking, Doubt

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

  Alan Shearer

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

  Alexander Pope

  Teenage, Teenage Love, Crime

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 6

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• This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 26, 2014

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• Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Sacrifice, Giving, Joy

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• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Eugenics, Euthanasia

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

  Mike Gray

  Soccer, People, Inspirational Soccer

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• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

  John Wesley Powell

  Running, Wall, Distance

  John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin

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• Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Soccer, Football

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

  Nigel Dennis

  Photography, Games, Done

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• The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Chess, Way

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