Don Marquis Quotes on Writing

5 quotes

  1. dedicated to babs with babs knows what and babs knows why

  2. I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

  3. If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

  4. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  5. The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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