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Writing Quotes - Page 421

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

"Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.214, Harvard University Press

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.