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![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
―
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
―
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marriage of words—the bride—
and spaces—the groom,
she knows that as soon
as she has penned the poem,
it’s yours to consume.
So, without giving it a think,
she blows on the ink
and the letters fly away
like dandelions on a windy day,
landing on hands and lips,
on hearts and hips.
But more often than not,
you can easily spot
them trodden and forgotten,
becoming sodden and rotten.
Yet, she will continue to make
what’s others to take
because selfishness
is not the mark of a poetess.”
―
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marriage of words—the bride—
and spaces—the groom,
she knows that as soon
as she has penned the poem,
it’s yours to consume.
So, without giving it a think,
she blows on the ink
and the letters fly away
like dandelions on a windy day,
landing on hands and lips,
on hearts and hips.
But more often than not,
you can easily spot
them trodden and forgotten,
becoming sodden and rotten.
Yet, she will continue to make
what’s others to take
because selfishness
is not the mark of a poetess.”
―
![Kamand Kojouri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1583340033i/13500546._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“I left the bank
because they wouldn’t deposit
my cheque of poems.
So I went to the store,
but they didn’t accept
my currency of words.
So I boxed all my stories
and took them to charity.
But they refused my donation
and asked me to give blood instead.
I opened the notebooks
and made them look, 'What do you think
I wrote these in?”
―
because they wouldn’t deposit
my cheque of poems.
So I went to the store,
but they didn’t accept
my currency of words.
So I boxed all my stories
and took them to charity.
But they refused my donation
and asked me to give blood instead.
I opened the notebooks
and made them look, 'What do you think
I wrote these in?”
―
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.”
― Blue Skies And Jack And Jill
― Blue Skies And Jack And Jill
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
![Deyth Banger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533124314i/14928754._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To be honest I wrote it mainly from the reason and wanting something more than a life something which could explore my life at deeper level. Probably I have done it... probably I haven't done it... what I know is that I won't be for this Century like somebody famous... I will be still average, I can't go on the amazon and starting selling my works... I don't feel comfortable being in that state.”
― The Life Of One Kid
― The Life Of One Kid
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than everyone else, you have to want to write better than everyone else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen--editors, agents, and publishers--whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards are not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling for less than their best.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
![Andrew Kendall](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508173455i/4179826._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.”
― The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
― The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
![Deyth Banger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533124314i/14928754._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I can't get why people are afraid of books or films which are horror. What's the scary of the film "Cube 1,2,3" - Yeah it was brutal I get scary, but after an hour I'm fine. I just continue to live my life. I check out "Saw", the most brutal film ever watched, yeah I could have some kind a bad thoughts and other stuff about the film. Like to think that this guy "Saw", is there with the bike, but after few days everything it went on the right path. I had chance to see what is the real face of the killers - "Saw" and what does goverment do "Cube"!
GreenMile was a sad story, I still can't believe that Stephen King has written it!”
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GreenMile was a sad story, I still can't believe that Stephen King has written it!”
―
![William Zinsser](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398172620i/7881675._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.”
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
― On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
![Awdhesh Singh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1409070576i/7333031._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You get in touch with the world and yourself at the deepest level when you are surrounded by silence. The extreme of boredom thus prompts you to become creative. When human beings got bored, they created new cities, discovered the laws of the world, made beautiful paintings, wrote books and developed philosophies.”
― 31 Ways to Happiness
― 31 Ways to Happiness
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