Lead Bullet

Famous quotes containing the words lead and/or bullet:

“Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“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)