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"A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one."	Thomas Carlyle
"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him."	Rachel Louise Carson
"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values."	Willa Sibert Cather
"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before."	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."	John Cheever
"Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing."	Meg Chittenden
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"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
"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."	Peter Cochrane
"It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."	Isabel Colegate
"If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did."	Jerry Coleman
"Writing only leads to more writing."	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting."	G. Norman Collie
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice."	Cyril Connolley
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."	Cyril Connolley
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."	Joseph Conrad
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
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Isabel Colegate	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jack Lemmon
James Abram Garfield	James Arthur Baldwin	James Earl Jones
Jane Welsh Carlyle	Jean Anouilh	Jerry Coleman
Jerry Della Femina	Jim Davis	Joan Baez
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Cheever	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gargin	Joseph Conrad	Josh Billings
Jules Renard	Julie Arabi	J. F. Boyse
Leo Tolstoy	Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman
Lloyd Garrison	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Twain	Mark S. Hertzog	Martin Gore
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maxim Gorky
Meg Chittenden	Micheál MacLiammóir	Napolean Hill
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Omar Khayyám	Peter Brodie
Peter Cochrane	Peter Kropotkin	Phillip K. Dick
Phillips Brooks	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ring Lardner	Robert Heinlein	Robertson Davies
Robert Anson Heinlein	Russell Lynes	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Saul David Alinsky	Shusha Guppy
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren	Stephen King
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Berger	Truman Capote	T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot	Van Wyck Brooks	Victor Hugo
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