Joseph Joubert Quotes About Writing
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
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Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
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