"The writer who aims at producing the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
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More on Writing
“The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.”
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
“Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.”
More on Authenticity
“I am who I am. You sort of get what you see with me.”
“It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.”
“He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.”