A. A. Milne Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

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  Friendship, Teacher, Fun

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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  Writing, English Grammar, Letters

  Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 6

• Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

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  Writing, Heart, Ideas

• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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  Success, Writing, Fame

  A. A. Milne “Not That It Matters”, Lulu.com

• This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

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  Silly, Writing, Stuff

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.118, Egmont UK

• So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

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  Book, Writing, Introduction

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.6, Egmont UK

• If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

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  Writing, Play, History

• For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

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  Writing, Editing, Long

  Winnie-the-Pooh ch. 4 (1926)

• They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

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  Writing, Way, Pounds

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.29, Egmont UK

• The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

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  Children, Fun, Writing

• What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

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  Writing, Oxford, Cambridge

  A. A. Milne (2017). “It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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