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• "Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood."
  By: Georges Bataille
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• "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
  By: Sir Francis Bacon
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• "From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."
  By: Isaac Asimov
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• "Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
  By: Isaac Asimov
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• "'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
  By: Æschylus
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• "A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)"
  By: Douglas Noel Adams
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• "Writing is thinking on paper."
  By: William Zinsser
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• "We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
  By: Virginia Woolf
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• "From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs."
  By: E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
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• "Good writing is clear thinking made visible."
  By: Bill Wheeler
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• "Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago."
  By: John Wesley
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• "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair."
  By: Mary Heaton Vorse
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• "Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
  By: Count Leo Tolstoy
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• "Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober."
  By: James Thurber
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