Quote by Brooks Atkinson
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking – and looking. – Brooks Atkinson

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.

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