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• I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

  Mark Twain

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• The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

  Ethel Wilson

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• They’re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. 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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• Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

  Jonathan Swift

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• As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

  Malcolm Lowry

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• Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

  William James

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• It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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• It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

  Nicola Chiaromonte

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• The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

  Gabrielle Roy

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• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  J. B. Priestley

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• His (the writer’s) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

  Ernest Hemingway

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• Journalism allows it’s readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

  John Hersey

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• When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do – well, that’s memoirs.

  Will Rogers

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• I work every day – or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don’t earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don’t earn the fourth without it.

  Mordecai Richler

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• Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an injustice collector and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.

  Edmund Bergler

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• The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

  Samuel Johnson

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• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  Karl Kraus

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• Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

  Northrop Frye

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