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• "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof crap detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
  By: ^ Ernest Hemingway
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• "The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
  By: ^ Elias Canetti
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• "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant."
  By: ^ Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
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• "Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves."
  By: ^ E.L. Doctorow
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• "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
  By: ^ E. B. White Charlotte's Web
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• "Writing is hard work and bad for the health."
  By: ^ E. B. White
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• "Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
  By: ^ Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938
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• "First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII--and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
  By: ^ Douglas Adams
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• "The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
  By: ^ Dorothy L. Sayers
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• "I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
  By: ^ Doris Lessing
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• "If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
  By: ^ Don Marquis
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• "Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer."
  By: ^ Colette, Casual Chance, 1964
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• "A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
  By: ^ Charles Peguy
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• "When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint."
  By: ^ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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• "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
  By: ^ Charles Caleb Colton
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• "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 that mirror which waits always before or behind."
  By: ^ Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
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