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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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• "A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."
  By: W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938
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• "Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
  By: André Gide
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• "Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers."
  By: T.S. Eliot
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• "An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."
  By: Adlai Stevenson, as quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited Ronald D. Fuchs
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• "You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what''s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke."
  By: Arthur Polotnik
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• "A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."
  By: E.L. Doctorow
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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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• "Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man."
  By: Emily Dickinson
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• "A writer''s mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head."
  By: Ethel Wilson
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• "| Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else."
  By: Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die Karol Jackowski
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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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• "The best time for planning a book is while you''re doing the dishes."
  By: Agatha Christie
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