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• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  A. E. van Vogt

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• I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

  Howard Nemerov

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

  Rita Mae Brown

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• An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

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• We do not write as we want, but as we can.

  W. Somerset Maugham

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• A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

  William Faulkner

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• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

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• If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.

  Neil Gaiman

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• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

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• The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

  Kellie Elmore

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• If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.

  Sonia Rumzi

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• The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

  Sally Odgers

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• I write to be a part of something – a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

  Ashley Sanders

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• The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

  Paul Di Filippo

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• Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

  Stephen King

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• Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

  Sandra Brown

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• If you live with dogs, you’ll never run out of things to write about.

  Sharon Delarose

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• Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

  George Orwell

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• No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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