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"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."	Adlai Stevenson
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."	Andrew Jackson
"When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do."	Anne Sexton
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."	Benjamin Franklin
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."	Bill Clinton
"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short."	Blaise Pascal
"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations."	C.S. Lewis
"Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'"	C.S. Lewis
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."	C.S. Lewis
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."	C.S. Lewis
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"	Dave Barry
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."	Dorothy Parker
"I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true."	Dorothy Parker
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don�t write about Man, write about 'a' man."	E.B. White
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."	Ernest Hemingway
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."	Ernest Hemingway
"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."	Ernest Hemingway
"The writer�s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand."	Ernest Hemingway
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."	Fran Lebowitz

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