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• I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

  Jules Renard

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• I write-down to speak-up.

  M. K. Asante

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• Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

  Truman Capote

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• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education — sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  E. B. White

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• The reality is more excellent than the report.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  Walter Cronkite

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• Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

  Alan Dean Foster

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• I don’t think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don’t come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

  Judy Collins

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• A short saying often contains much wisdom.

  Sophocles

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• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Satir

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• Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

  Blaise Pascal

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• Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

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• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

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• But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in Americaand change soon. We must help that change to come.

  Langston Hughes

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• Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic’s judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.

  Lavinia Goodell

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• I quote others in order to better express my own self.

  Michel de Montaigne

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• Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.

  Kathryn Hughes

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• Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

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