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• "Don't write merely to be understood. Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood."
  By: ^ Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
  By: ^ Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."
  By: ^ Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621
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• "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
  By: ^ Robert Benchley
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• "The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life."
  By: ^ Rita Mae Brown Starting From Scratch
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• "Writing is the art of second thought."
  By: ^ Rene J. Cappon Associated Press Guide to News Writing
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• "Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
  By: ^ Ray Bradbury
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• "The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
  By: ^ Ray Bradbury
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• "Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart."
  By: ^ Rainer Maria Rilke
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• "I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
  By: ^ Peter De Vries
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• "I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
  By: ^ Norman Mailer
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• "There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write."
  By: ^ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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• "An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought."
  By: ^ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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• "If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."
  By: ^ Mickey Spillane
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• "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."
  By: ^ Meg Chittenden
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• "For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
  By: ^ Matthew Arnold
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