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• "No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other."
  By: ^ Alexander Pope in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of His Time by Spence
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• "The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought."
  By: ^ Albert Pike
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• "Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."
  By: ^ Albert Camus
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• "The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
  By: ^ Agatha Christie
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• "Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."
  By: Goethe
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• "Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man''s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible."
  By: Leo Tolstoy
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• "I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody''s head."
  By: John Updike
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• "There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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• "The best style is the style you don''t notice."
  By: Somerset Maugham
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• "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman."
  By: Van Wyck Brooks
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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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• "Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such."
  By: Samuel Butler
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• "Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence."
  By: Fay Weldon
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• "He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."
  By: John Ray
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• "One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment."
  By: Hart Crane
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