Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubertwas a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 May 1754
CountryFrance
writing editors agents
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.
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A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.
writing needs natural
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
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Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
writing air voice
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.