Logo
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

The author, as a rule, dearly loves every line of his work, from the first stroke down to the dotlet on the i, and certainly has a right to it. – Gustav Boehm, “A Discourse on Title Page Composition,” in The Inland Printer (Ch

Category:
Writing

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Category:
Writing

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. – Author Unknown

Category:
Writing

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

I have retired, but if theres anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. – Nelson Mandela

Category:
Morning

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Christianity

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each others stories. – Rebecca Falls

Category:
Listening

Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there. – Author Unknown

Category:
Friendship