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"There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction."	Theodore Roosevelt
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."	James Michener
"The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity."	GK Chesterton
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity."	George Orwell
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it."	Oscar Wilde
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."	Samuel Johnson
"When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do."	Anne Sexton
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."	Gloria Steinem
"Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'"	Nachman of Bratslav
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."	Ring Lardner
"After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style."	Isaac Disraeli
"It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?"	Matthew Clayfield
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."	Saul Bellow

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