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• "Everywhere I go I''m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don''t stifle enough of them. There''s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
  By: Flannery O'Connor
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• "Be obscure clearly."
  By: E.B. White
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• "The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it."
  By: William Gass, "Habitations of the Word," Kenyon Review, October 1984
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• "Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
  By: Gene Fowler
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• "Do not put statements in the negative form. And don''t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
  By: William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"
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• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle."
  By: John Cheever
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• "It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order."
  By: Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989
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• "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
  By: Hannah Arendt
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• "A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right."
  By: John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
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• "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it''s about, but the inner music the words make."
  By: Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
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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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