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• "I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog."
  By: D.H. Lawrence
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• "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."
  By: Ring Lardner
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• "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
  By: Robert Heinlein
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• "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
  By: Stephen King
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• "We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
  By: W. Somerset Maugham
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• "There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
  By: W. Somerset Maugham
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• "A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."
  By: W. Somerset Maugham
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• "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."
  By: Isaac Asimov
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• "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
  By: Victor Hugo
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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."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write"very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."
  By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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• "Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind."
  By: Florence Nightingale
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• "When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research."
  By: Wilson Mizner
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• "Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
  By: Henry Miller
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