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"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."	Mark Twain
"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."	Mark Twain
"Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers."	T.S. Eliot
"A metaphor is like a simile."	Author Unknown
"Proofread carefully to see if you any words out."	Author Unknown
"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."	Author Unknown
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."	Victor Hugo
"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."	Francis Bacon
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."	Benjamin Disraeli
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."	Isaac Asimov
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."	Isaac Asimov
"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."	W. Somerset Maugham
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."	W. Somerset Maugham
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."	W. Somerset Maugham
"Be obscure clearly."	E.B. White
"Writing is both mask and unveiling."	E.B. White
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."	Baltasar Gracian
"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."	Fran Lebowitz
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."	Fran Lebowitz
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Edward Albee	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Emily Dickinson
Eric Anderson	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene Kennedy
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.	E. L. Doctorow	Florence Nightingale
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F. H. Bradley	Garrison Keillor	Gene Fowler
George	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Bataille	George Frost Kennan	Gerald R. Ford
Gloria Steinem	Gustave Flaubert	G. Norman Collie
Hans Christian Anderson	Harold Bloom	Harry Emerson Fosdick
Helen Adams Keller	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Henry Miller
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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
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	W. Somerset Maugham	Willa Sibert Cather
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