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Purpose Of Writing Quotes

Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report? Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes." Calvin: Academia, here I come! Bill Watterson
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) Jonathan Franzen
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. Nadine Gordimer
Bill Watterson quote: "The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor..."
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. Bill Watterson
The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business. Norman Vincent Peale
John Mason Brown quote: "The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too..."
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. John Mason Brown
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool. Kurt Vonnegut
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. Alan Paton
Alan Moore quote: "Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the..."
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. Alan Moore
William S. Burroughs quote: "The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals."
The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. William S. Burroughs
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money. Dorothy Fields
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. William Herschel
[I]f creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing: translating an old (known) abstraction (theme or thesis) through the medium of old fiction means (that is, characters, events or situations used before for that same purpose, that same translation) -- this is most of the popular trash; translating an old abstraction through new, original fiction means -- this is most of the good literature; creating a... Ayn Rand
The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with... Raymond Chandler

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