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• "As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word."
  By: Georg C. Lichtenberg
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• "The cure for writers cramp is writer's block."
  By: Inigo de Leon
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• "It requires more than mere genius to be an author."
  By: Jean De La Bruyere
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• "This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many."
  By: (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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• "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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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
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• "The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
  By: Julia Ward Howe
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• "You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers."
  By: Horace
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• "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
  By: Ernest Hemingway
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• "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
  By: Ernest Hemingway
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• "The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything."
  By: William Hazlitt
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• "If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."
  By: Peter Handke
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• "I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality."
  By: Sir Peter Hall
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• "A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer."
  By: George Gribbon
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