Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.Related Articles:Abraham Lincoln, the Writer PresidentBrain Dumping With Goetheconvey_url = "http%3A%2F%2Fwalterburek.com%2F%3Fp%3D379";convey_source =...
Topics: Books, Brain Dumping, creativity, frederick douglass, great speeches, human salvation, quotations, writing

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The modern day American president speaks hardly a sentence that isn’t written by aides, political consultants or highly paid speech writers.Abraham Lincoln, on the other hand, wrote almost every sentence he uttered while he was president. He was a...
Topics: abraham lincoln, american president, Books, Brain Dumping, gettysburg address, gifted, literary style, malice toward none, poetry, poets, prose style, quotations, second inaugural address, writer, writing

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Notes from my moleskine:I have come to the frightening solution that I am the decisive element.It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I.
Topics: brain, Brain Dumping, climate, decisive element, goethe, Inspiration, moleskine, notes, personal approach, quotations, torture, writer, writing

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Many famous quotations we recognize from literature were never written that way; many legendary lines we assume are from movies were never scripted, or have been misquoted or wrongly attributed. This is the first in a series of lines that neither author..
Topics: count dracula, fiction, film ed wood, lexicon, literary, literature, martin landau, Mind Wandering, ned bellamy, quotations, tom mason, words, writer, writers, writing

{"title":"Writers\u2019 Lost Words I","post_url":"http:\/\/walterburek.com\/?p=337","feed_url":"http:\/\/walterburek.com\/?feed=rss","author":null,"date":"2009-01-04 10:47:04","summary":"Many famous quotations we recognize from literature were never written that way; many legendary lines we assume are from movies were never scripted, or have been misquoted or wrongly attributed. This is the first in a series of lines that neither author.."}

Write short sentences. That’s the advice most of us get, first in high school and then, repeatedly, as we pursue our careers as writers. Some teachers even go so far to assert that no sentence should contain more than seven words. If your sentence is...
Topics: absalom absalom, Books, edgar allen poe, editing, ernest hemingway, fiction, long sentence, Mind Wandering, novels, sentences, the premature burial, using language, william faulkner, writer, writers, writing, writing resource

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