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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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• "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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• "If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I''d type a little faster."
  By: Isaac Asimov
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• "I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
  By: James Michener
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• "A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "Proofread carefully to see if you any words out."
  By: Author Unknown
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• "The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
  By: Jules Renard, "Diary," February 1895
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• "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "A metaphor is like a simile."
  By: Author Unknown
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• "Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."
  By: Orson Scott Card
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• "Easy reading is damn hard writing."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "Don''t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
  By: Anton Chekhov
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• "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
  By: Vladimir Nabakov
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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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• "The wastebasket is a writer''s best friend."
  By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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