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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."	Josh Billings
"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked."	Harold Bloom
"I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true."	Derek Curtis Bok
"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
"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand."	J. F. Boyse
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."	F. H. Bradley
"What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows."	Peter Brodie
"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself."	Charlotte Bronte
"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. "	Phillips Brooks
"As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day."	Van Wyck Brooks
"Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'"	Art Buchwald
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."	Samuel Butler
"Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."	Colin Campbell
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."	Albert Camus
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."	Truman Capote
"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
"Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act."	Truman Capote
"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."	George
"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: I'm such a klutz! But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."	George
"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least."	Jane Welsh Carlyle
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