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If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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Writing to offer a piece of information or a connection is a great way to demonstrate that you're looking out for the other person. Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you're looking out for someone, the more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.

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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

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Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

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