Long Bullet

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bullet:

“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)