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• "Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it''s so hurtful to think about writing."
  By: Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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• "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else''s draft."
  By: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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• "In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
  By: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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• "A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
  By: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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• "This is the sixth book I''ve written, which isn''t bad for a guy who''s only read two."
  By: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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• "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
  By: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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• "After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
  By: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
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• "Your life story would not make a good book. Don''t even try."
  By: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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• "You ask me why I do not write something....I think one''s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."
  By: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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• "It''s not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules."
  By: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
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• "Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
  By: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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• "If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages."
  By: Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
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• "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
  By: Edwin Schlossberg
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• "Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
  By: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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• "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."
  By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Richelieu
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• "A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
  By: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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