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Quote by T.S. Eliot
Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers.

Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

Other quotes by T.S. Eliot

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot

Category:
Decisions
Author
T.S. Eliot
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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

Category:
Perspective
Author
T.S. Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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Writing

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Writing

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

Category:
Writing

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Writing

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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James, letter to Carl Stumpf, 1886 January 1st

Category:
Procrastination

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. – Ellen Barkin

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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