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• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by … religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

  Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr.

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• There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people if he’s any good.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  Jessamyn West

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• If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

  Lillian Florence Hellman

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• Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

  Ross Perot

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• The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

  George P. Rowell

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• Good things, when short, are twice as good.

  Baltasar Gracián

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• My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

  Tom DeLay

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• Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

  Roland Barthes

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• Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.

  Mary McCarthy

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• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anaïs Nin

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• The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

  Omar Khayyám

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• Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer’s business is to affect the reader.

  Vincent McHugh

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• Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.

  Gore Vidal

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• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  Horace

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• I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

  Horace

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• A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

  Lord Chesterfield

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• In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

  Bob Dylan

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Resentment

• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  Alan Wilson Watts

  Topics in Love

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