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«The broad spectrum of knowledge, the ability to probe into the meaning of an event and the ability to write clearly and concisely in newspaper style are the essence of professionalism.»
Author: Betty Southard Murphy
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Knowledge
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an event, broad, concisely, newspaper, probe, probed, probes, probing, professionalism, spectrum, writing style
«Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.»
Author: Claud Cockburn
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disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, married couple, papers, piece of writing, ruining, writing style
«I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Writing
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calculated, calculating, expresses, humorously, invented, in style, lustily, style, writing style
«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Writing
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composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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collaborate, collaborated, collaborating, counseling, edit, edited, editing, editor, piece of writing, tendency, writing style
«I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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in style, My Style, reading, story, style, styled, The Story, think about, writing style
«The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.»
«Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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caution, courses, hedged, hedges, hedging, published, remained, rule book, spoiled, writing style
«If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
writing style
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