Marcel Proust (1871-1922) - Carnet de notes (Notebooks), 1908-18
"Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals."
"I try to leave out the parts that people skip."
"Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals."
Marcel Proust
"I try to leave out the parts that people skip."
Elmore Leonard
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Mark Twain
"True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
Alexander Pope
"The two most engaging powers of an author are to be able to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
Samuel Johnson
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
André Gide
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
Jules Renard
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
Thomas Mann
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
C. S. Lewis
