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• "Let''s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks."
  By: Peter S. Prescott
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• "Writing is both mask and unveiling."
  By: E.B. White
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• "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don''t give a damn what you say, they''re going to write."
  By: Sinclair Lewis
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• "Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head."
  By: From the movie Finding Forrester
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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, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938
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• "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 19 August 1851
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• "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."
  By: Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (*) (Thank you, Frank Lynch.)
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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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• "It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else."
  By: Havelock Ellis
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• "To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."
  By: Lord ron
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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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• "As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."
  By: Virginia Woolf
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• "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer''s radar and all great writers have had it."
  By: Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958
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• "As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."
  By: Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
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• "My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin."
  By: Karl Kraus
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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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