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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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"writing, I think, is not apart from living. writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School board" »Mark Twain
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again." »Delmore Schwartz
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"God is love, but get it in writing." »Gypsy Rose Lee
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"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Vigorous writing is concise." »William Jr. Strunk
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading." »Lord Acton
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." »Cyril Connolly
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"Television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." »Ivana Trump
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin
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"writing is hard work and bad for the health." »E. B. White
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly
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"Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw Lec
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"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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