Quote by Walter Bagehot
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walte

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

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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. – Walter Bagehot

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

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

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, Id type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov

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 best armor is to keep out of gunshot. – Francis Bacon

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When great questions end, little parties begin. – Walter Bagehot

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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times. – Author Unknown

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