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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers
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"In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is." »Geoffrey Cottrell
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"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." »Sandra Cisneros
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." »Inigo DeLeon
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"Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." »Edward Albee
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"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien
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"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant." »Edna Ferber
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"A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others." »Leo C. Rosten
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"Never write a letter while you are angry." »Chinese Proverb
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"Anger is only one letter short of danger." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." »Phyllis Theroux
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"It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth." »Robert Armstrong
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"One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive." »John Ernst Steinbeck
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"I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter." »Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)
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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it." »Mark Twain
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"I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." »Blaise Pascal
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"I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it." »Mark Twain
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"A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it." »Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." »Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
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"A leader without vision is a stamped letter without address; it can never reach its destination." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." »Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
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"A letter to the Beloved, is like Ink kissing Paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est L'encre embrassant le papier)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." »Alvin Toffler
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"Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, letter 87, c.63-65" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"You are the writer of your own life." »Rajnesh Sharma
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"I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew." »Janet Minor
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"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." »Leo Rosten
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