David Mamet (Photo: Marcus Hänschen)
We’re given a great gift and a great responsibility,
which is to tell stories as honestly as we can,
and experience things and processes that are beautiful.
~ David Mamet (1947 – )
American playwright, essayist, and screenwriter
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The
Gauge of a good poem is
The size of the love-bruise it leaves
On your neck.
Hafiz
14th century Persian poet
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A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.
~Henry James (1843 – 1916)
American-born British Writer
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David Mamet (Photo: Marcus Hänschen)
You’ve got to stand being bad if you want to be a writer
because if you don’t, you’re never going to write anything good.
~ David Mamet (1947 – )
American playwright, essayist, and screenwriter
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William Strunk Jr.
. . . the surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by
being specific, definite, and concrete.
The greatest writers … are effective largely because
they deal in particulars and report the details that matter.
Their words call up pictures.
~ William Strunk, Jr. (1869 – 1946)
American Professor of English at Cornell University,
Author of The Elements of Style
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